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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Coalition to present ‘pay on delay’ bill to make airlines compensate affected passengers

Bridget McKenzie
Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie says ‘Australians deserve an aviation industry where planes take off and arrive on time and their bags arrive with them’. The Coalition will present a bill for compensation for delayed flights. Photograph: Esther Linder/AAP

The Coalition will move to force the Albanese government to bring in an airline passenger compensation scheme that would make carriers pay delayed customers, in a bill dubbed “pay on delay”.

On Friday, opposition transport spokesperson and Nationals senator, Bridget McKenzie, and Liberal senator Dean Smith gave notice of their intention to move “a bill for an Act to require the transport minister to make rules prescribing carriers’ obligations, and for related purposes” when parliament returns later this month.

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