articleThe Brief The Trump administration will not move forward with a proposed rule requiring airlines to pay passengers and cover meals and lodging for long flight delays or cancellations. Trump has sought to significantly roll back or modify federal regulations that his administration deems are wasteful or burdensome. A rule that would have required airlines to provide compensation and cover meals and lodging for lengthy flight delays or cancellations has been scrapped by the Trump administration. In a document posted Thursday, President Donald Trump’s Transportation Department said its plan to drop the proposed rule is "consistent with Department and administration priorities." The rule would have aligned U.S. policy more closely with European airline consumer protections, but Biden’s Transportation Department left it up to the Trump administration to implement.