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‘It would be too difficult to disclose the charges more clearly.’
That’s how The Washington Post paraphrased Doug Mullen, a lawyer for commercial airline lobby Airlines for America, when he testified against government regulation of junk fees.
The Post catches up on President Biden’s initiative to regulate hidden fees so consumers can actually understand what they’re being charged.
Industry groups aren’t enthusiastic. In a critical comment on an FTC proposal to require hotels and other businesses to disclose extra charges, one lobbying group quoted in the piece channeled The Verge in asking, “what, exactly, is a ‘fee’?”
From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
[The Washington Post]
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