Barbara M. Marrin
Of Counsel | Washington, DC, Office
Administrative Law | Aviation
Barbara Marrin’s practice focuses on aviation regulatory matters, including, but not limited to, advising U.S. and foreign air carriers as well as ticket agents on compliance with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and other Federal agencies relating to the operation and sale of air transportation. Immediately prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Marrin was a senior trial attorney with DOT’s Office of Aviation Enforcement & Proceedings in the Office of General Counsel, with responsibility for directing investigations of and negotiating consent decrees with U.S. and foreign air carriers and ticket agents for violations of DOT’s aviation consumer protection, licensing and civil rights requirements. During the six years Ms. Marrin served as an attorney with DOT, she also drafted proposed and final agency consumer protection rules, led DOT analysts and attorneys during on-site carrier audits to assess compliance with DOT regulations and evaluated airline training programs pertaining to nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in air travel. As a consequence, Ms. Marrin has a deep and specialized knowledge of DOT’s statutes, rules and enforcement policies applicable to carrier offerings, products and services.
From 2008 to 2009, Ms. Marrin practiced law with a Virginia-based civil litigation firm. Ms. Marrin also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jane Marum Roush of the Fairfax County Circuit Court between 2007 and 2008.
Selected Publications
- US FAA Proposes Changes to International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (and More) (August 2024)
- Travel Tech Live Webinar: Top 7 Takeaways on New U.S. DOT Ancillary Fee and Refunds Rules - Travel Tech Association (May 2024)
- Introducing AI To the World of Aviation Consumer Protection Regulation (April 2024)
- US DOT Proposes Most Significant Overhaul of Disability Access Regulations in 16 years (March 2024)
- DOT 2023 Enforcement Summary: The top of the mountain or the beginning of the ascent? (January 2024)
- The International Air Transportation Fair Competitive Practices Act – A Limited, But Powerful Tool for U.S. Carriers (April 2023)
- DOT Issues Notice Concerning Investigatory and Enforcement Procedures (January 2023)
- FAA Updates International Aviation Safety Assessment Program Policy (October 2022)
- DOT Enforcement of Egregious Part 382 Violations (October 2022)
- DOT Rulemaking Alert: Enhancing Transparency of Airline Ancillary Service Fees (September 2022)
- DOT Rulemaking Update — Accessible Lavatories on Single-Aisle Aircraft: Part 2 (April 2022)
- Air Carrier Responsibility for Complaint Responses (March 2022)
- Foreign Air Carrier New Entry in the U.S. in 2021: a Terrible Year for Aviation or an Opportunity? (February 2022)
- DOT Signals its Intent to Move Fast on Consumer Protection Matters (January 2022)
- “Rebooting” Air Carrier Operations in the U.S. – Key Considerations (October 2021)
- Taming the Beast: Reforming DOT’s Third-Party Complaint Procedures Can Help Consumers and Airlines; ABA Air and Space Lawyer, volume 34, number 2 (September 2021)
- Aviation in the United States: How COVID-19 and President Biden will Affect the Landscape in 2021 and Beyond [Japanese], TEIKUOFU, ANA Strategic Research Institute (July 2021)
- “Rebooting” Air Carrier Operations in the U.S. – Key Considerations (October 2021)
- DOT’s Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws in Commercial Aviation (June 2021)
- Aviation Regulatory Policy Implications of a Biden Administration (Jan. 2021)
- Foreign Carrier Part 375 Operations During COVID-19 – A Partially Open Door to the U.S. Market (Nov. 2020)
- Responding to Airline Passenger Misconduct (Oct. 2020)
- GAO Finds that DOT’s Enforcement Approach Lacks Transparency and Clarity (Oct. 2020)
- International Relations: DOT’s Measured Responses Are Fair But Pull No Punches (Oct. 2020)
- Air Carriers and Shippers: Beware the Well-Meaning Employee (July 2020)
- U.S. Airline Passenger Consumer Protection – Recent Developments (July 2020)
- The DOT Third-Party Complaint System - Opportunities for Improvements (July 2020)
- CARES Act: Aviation Sector-Specific Financial Assistance Provisions (March 2020)
- DOT's Regulation of Seventh Freedom Charters (April 2019)
- DOT's Disability Regulations and Carrier Compliance (April 2019)
- DOT Rules on Fare Advertising (Feb. 2019)
- FAA Issues Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Regulations (July 2016)
- EU 261: Recent U.S. Litigation Developments (March 2016)