Airline fee disclosures, other rules take effect this week

Starting Jan. 26, airlines must reveal all of their fees and taxes, including baggage fees, in an advertised airfare price.

Beginning today, consumers may hold a flight reservation for 24 hours without payment or cancellation penalty if they book a flight at least 1 week in advance.

Also beginning today, airlines must notify passengers promptly of delays that exceed 30 minutes, diversions and cancellations.

The provisions that take effect this week originally were issued as part of Department of Transportation’s airline-consumer ruling in April 2011. Several of these provisions, including limits on extended tarmac delays and increased compensation for passengers who are bumped from oversold flights, went into effect in August 2011.