Under the Biden administration, a rule was proposed that would require airlines to pay passengers anywhere from $200 to $775 if flights were delayed over three hours for reasons within the airlines’ control.

Of course, airlines lie about what is and isn’t in their control all the time (your “weather delay” was almost certainly fake), but it was a step in the right direction, finally putting our fair country up to the level of others like Romania, Bulgaria and Brazil in terms of flight-delay compensation.

Well, if you liked that idea, that’s too bad, because it’s not happening anymore. The Trump administration recently announced that they wouldn’t be moving forward with the proposal, and that if someone decides to delay your flight by four hours because someone thought the runway would be a great place to preach the Gospel, that’s on you — the airlines don’t have a pay a cent.

Jokes on us for expecting something good to happen, I guess!