Sec. 3. Reimbursement of certain travel expenses by commercial airlines
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All travel expenses incurred, on or after December 31, 2019, and on or before September 30, 2020, by any United States citizen as a direct result of any flight on a commercial airline that is cancelled or does not depart within 24 hours of its originally scheduled departure time shall be reimbursed, in cash, by the airline with which such flight was initially booked if the citizen was evacuated from a foreign country and repatriated to the United States due to travel restrictions implemented in response to COVID–19. Notwithstanding any otherwise applicable contractual provision, any commercial airline that sold a ticket to a United States citizen described in subsection
(a)for a flight from a foreign country to the United States during the period set forth in such subsection that, due to travel restrictions referred to in such subsection, was cancelled (by the passenger or by the airline) or was rescheduled to depart more than 24 hours after its originally scheduled departure time— shall provide the passenger with a cash reimburse of the total costs incurred by the passenger for any cancelled flight; shall waive any change fees associated with replacing such ticket for another flight; may not charge the passenger any more for the replacement ticket than was charged for the original ticket; and shall provide the passenger with a cash reimbursement for any amount paid by the passenger during the period set forth in subsection
(a)that is prohibited under paragraph
(2)or (3). Except as provided in paragraph (2), a commercial airline may use amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the commercial airline industry in any appropriations Act enacted on or after March 1, 2020, in response to COVID–19 to pay for the travel expenses described in subsection (a). A commercial airline may not use amounts appropriated under section 4112 of the Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020 (title IV of division A of Public Law 116–136 ) to pay for the travel expenses described in subsection (a).
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Sec. 3
Reimbursement of certain travel expenses by commercial airlines
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