Airlines would no longer have to include taxes when initially advertising their fares, under House legislation a committee will vote on Tuesday. The provision, the source of a long-running conflict between consumer advocates and airlines, is part of FAA legislation at the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The House has approved similar measures in the past, but the Senate hasn’t acted on them. The legislation would overturn a DoT requirement that airlines include all taxes in the first mention of fares in their advertising. The department's goal was to prevent bait-and-switch ads featuring low fares that then grew with taxes. Airlines have long fought the requirement, arguing that no other industry has to include taxes when advertising prices for their products. <br/>
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The US Supreme Court said later this year it will hear the case against US president Donald Trump’s revised executive order temporarily banning nationals from 6 countries from traveling to the US, but also has allowed the ban to be partially implemented in the interim. Trump’s second executive order had been blocked by lower courts. The case will now be heard by the Supreme Court when it convenes in October, the court announced Monday. In its announcement, the court granted a partial stay on the lower court rulings while the case proceeds, permitting enforcement of the ban against nationals from the 6 countries applying for US travel visas who have never before travelled to the US and/or cannot prove family or business ties to the US. <br/>
A hard Brexit would be a “calamity” that would spell the end for the Heathrow expansion, according to the chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission. While the airport has argued that Brexit makes its third runway ever more important, Andrew Adonis said private investment in infrastructure would be off the table unless Britain could maintain ties with the EU. Adonis said that a host of major projects including HS2, Crossrail 2 and HS3 rail links between northern cities, as well as universal broadband and mobile services, would be under threat but particularly those that rely on private funding. “If we were to go for a hard Brexit which severs Britain’s trading ties with the continent I think we could be heading for a calamity as a country,” he said. <br/>