I’m shocked. Are you shocked?

Transportation department taps brakes on proposed regulation requiring disclosure of airline feeshttps://t.co/iwzmQPaxS9

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 10, 2017

The proposed rule would require airlines and ticket agents to clearly disclose to consumers all customer-specific fee information, including charges for a first and second checked bag and a carry-on bag, wherever fare and schedule information is provided to consumers. It also would mandate that the baggage fee information be disclosed, adjacent to the fare, at the first point in a search process where a fare is listed in connection with a specific flight itinerary.

These extra fees, sometimes revealed only at the last minute, are an enduring cause of aggravation for air travelers — and an abundant source of revenue for the airline industry. So, when the business-friendly Trump administration came to power, the airline industry lobbied hard to kill the supplemental rulemaking.

When the rulemaking was suspended in March, the airline industry couldn’t stop applauding. Nicholas Calio, chief executive of the industry trade group Airlines for America, called the decision “a common-sense measure reinforcing that the airline industry is capable of making the decisions that best serve our customers, our employees and the communities we serve.”

How did the suspension serve passengers? The organization didn’t respond to my request for an explanation.