How to get compensated for future Southwest Airlines delays

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Southwest Airlines is being fined $140 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation after last year’s holiday travel meltdown. But the majority of that money will go toward compensating future Southwest customers who arrive at their destination three or more hours late — if the issues were caused by something under the airline’s control. Plus, one state put a price tag on untreated mental illness. The costs were staggering.

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0:00.0	How people buy applications on Android phones is about to change and there are an estimated
0:06.4	140 million of those in America.
0:09.5	I'm David Brancaccio in New York.
0:11.4	Details are now public of an antitrust settlement Google has reached
0:14.5	with state attorneys general.
0:16.5	It's about the Google Play Store, where you buy the apps that run under the Android system.
0:21.2	Google has agreed to ease restrictions on how independent app makers charge users.
0:25.6	Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has the tales.
0:29.0	Attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia had accused Google of abusing its market
0:35.6	dominance with what they called unnecessary fees and restrictions on how apps could be downloaded
0:41.1	on Android devices.
0:42.8	Google hasn't admitted wrongdoing,
0:45.0	but it has agreed to pay $630 million
0:48.0	into a settlement fund for consumers.
0:50.2	Google will put another $70 million into a fund that will be used by the states.
0:55.0	In a blog post, Google's Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Wilson White,
1:00.0	says consumers can now download apps directly from a developer's website
1:05.0	without going through an app store like Google Play.
1:08.0	Google gets a cut of up to 30% of purchases downloaded from its app store, the settlement still needs final court
1:14.9	approval.
1:15.9	Last week, Game Developer Epic won a different case against Google, a jury decided Google's
1:21.2	charges and rules for developers violated antitrust law.
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