DOT Rule Aims To Curb Shady Charter Broker Practices
The rule creases a new Part 295 to facilitate charter broker activities, calling for a series of disclosures and spelling out unfair practices.

The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its long-awaited rule regulating charter brokers, creating a new indirect air carrier category, calling for disclosures from both brokers and air taxis to consumers, and spelling out some of what would constitute unfair or deceptive practices. However, the rule does not establish a charter broker registry, as pushed for by some industry groups, nor does it provide a permanent exemption for air ambulance transportation.


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