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  <title>Comments for Kick Your Airline Complaint Up A Notch By CCing It To The DOT</title>
  <subtitle>Shoppers bite back.</subtitle>
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    <published>2007-03-27T20:27:10Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-01T12:56:59Z</updated>
    <title>Kick Your Airline Complaint Up A Notch By CCing It To The DOT</title>
    <summary>--&gt;WSJ reports that sending a copy of your airline complaint to the Department of Transportation (DOT) can result in increased attention from the airline.</summary>
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      <name>consumerist.com</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[<p><!--<img alt="waitingforbags.jpg" src="http://consumerist.com/images/resources/2007/03/waitingforbags.jpg" width="522" class="center-img" height="392" />-->WSJ reports that sending a copy of your airline complaint to the Department of Transportation (DOT) can result in increased attention from the airline.</p>

<p>Here's where you stuff your grievance(s):</p>

<p>email: airconsumer@dot.gov<br />
phone: 202-366-2220<br />
Aviation Consumer Protection Division, C-75<br />
U.S. Department of Transportation<br />
400 7th Street, S.W.<br />
Washington, D.C. 20590</p>

<p>include:     </p>

<p>&bull; name<br />
&bull; address<br />
&bull; daytime phone number (including area code)<br />
&bull; name of the airline or company about which you are complaining<br />
&bull; flight date<br />
&bull; flight number<br />
&bull; origin and destination cities of your trip.<br />
&bull; copy of your ticket<br />
&bull; copies of any correspondence you've had with the airline</p>

<blockquote>"We're more than just a statistics- capturing office," said a senior Transportation official. "Airlines are very sensitive to the complaints the department receives."</blockquote> <small> &mdash; BEN POPKEN</small>

<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117494821091649579-90GozQozkNgSH5rPQonekVScxKU_20070403.html?mod=blogs">Taking Airline Complaints to the Government</a> [WSJ]<br />
(Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/consumerist/434307631/">Ben Popken</a>)</p>]]>
      
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2007://1.247398-comment:1170171</id>
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    <title>Comment from celyn on 2007-03-28</title>
    <author>
        <name>celyn</name>
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DOT reports that 42% of it's luggage related complaints involve US Airways, but those complaints don't seem to have made any difference to that airline's operations.</p>
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    <published>2007-03-28T12:24:01Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from benn09 on 2007-03-27</title>
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Just wondering: can the DOT or FAA do anything with these complaints if they come from passengers that are American citizens landing at an American airport on a plane that originated in a foreign country and/or is a foreign airline ::cough Virgin Atlantic cough::?</p>
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    <published>2007-03-28T04:34:57Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from FLConsumer on 2007-03-27</title>
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UAL with 13 complains per MILLION passengers?  Obviously the DOT doesn't hang around airports much. </p>
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    <published>2007-03-28T01:09:55Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Ben Popken on 2007-03-27</title>
    <author>
        <name>Ben Popken</name>
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Your wish is our command. Link updated.</p>
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    <published>2007-03-27T20:38:17Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Dragontologist on 2007-03-27</title>
    <author>
        <name>Dragontologist</name>
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Doesn't the Federal Aviation Administration have a stake in this too?  They're part of the DoT, but more directed at airline safety.  Might as well add them to the CC list while you're at it.  </p>
<p>
Here's a list of all the local Public Affair contacts at the FAA, through their website.  I'd recommend using the one nearest your airline.<br />
<a href="http://www.faa.gov/news/contact_information/" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.faa.gov/news/contact_information/" rel="nofollow">http://www.faa.gov/news/contact_information/</a></a></p>
<p>
1-866-TELL-FAA (1-866-835-5322)<br />
FAA Headquarters<br />
Federal Aviation Administration<br />
800 Independence Ave, SW<br />
Washington, DC 20591</p>
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    <published>2007-03-27T20:15:28Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Buran on 2007-03-27</title>
    <author>
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Hey, how about a link that works and actually gives us something to read? Or a working bugmenot login?</p>
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    <published>2007-03-27T20:08:31Z</published>
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