The Department of Transportation fines airlines that refuse to give customers refunds for canceled flights, $7.5 million, and they must refund customers for canceled flights

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Monday announced that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines, and the DOT is ordering those airlines to pay $600 million in refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers who had been denied them.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1136678315/u-s-fines-airlines-7-5-million-and-they-must-refund-customers-for-cancelled-flig