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Poll: plane passengers favor delay fines

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A majority of Americans favor fining airlines that keep passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than three hours, a poll showed Tuesday.

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll reported in a national sample of 1,010 adults, 58 percent approve of the Department of Transportation's decision to fine air carriers $27,500 per passenger for long delays.

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The federal government's new regulation announced in December is expected to take effect April 29.

Fifty-two percent of those polled also said that airlines should require obese passengers to buy two seats while 39 percent disagreed, the poll showed.

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