📋 Tender Overview
The Infrastructure Commission (CI) should vote on Tuesday (2) bill that prohibits the automatic cancellation of following excerpts from air passage by non-attendance of the passenger and allows the transfer of ownership of the air ticket. The meeting, with five items on the agenda, is scheduled for 9am.
Senator Ana Paula Lobato (PDT-MA), also makes free name correction in the passage, in case of error in filling. This correction should be done by the airline and may be requested by check-in. For international flights with the participation of different airlines, correction costs may be passed on to the passenger, provided that the error is not the fault of the company.
Ana Paula argues that the Brazilian air transport market is highly concentrated. For her, this lack of competitiveness allows companies to adopt practices that are harmful to passenger and which contradict guarantees conferred by laws such as the Consumer Protection Code.
The text has a favorable vote of the rapporteur, Senator Esperidiao Amin (PP-SC), who presented a substitute (alternative text). He maintained the free name correction and the ban on subsequent passages, but changed another point of the text.
The excerpt altered by the rapporteur allowed the ticket holder to transfer her to someone else before the flight, something that is not possible today. For Esperidiao Amin, the right to transferring ownership could create a secondary airline ticket market, as the money changers do in shows.
By his new text, the senator proposes the obligation to offer only one class of air tickets entitled to transfer. We understand that, in this way, we will increase consumer protection without erecting new entry barriers to the national air market, argues the rapporteur.
Recyclables
It can also be voted on a supplementary shift, which establishes preference in bids for goods and services that meet sustainability criteria, such as recycled, recyclable, biodegradable, composable and efficient in energy use.
The bill was and depends on the supplementary shift approval so that it can go to the House of Representatives.
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