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Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf
ap ^ | Jun 18, 2022 | DAVID KOENIG

Posted on 06/19/2022 6:33:40 AM PDT by posterchild

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.

“That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: airlines; buttgig; flights; mayorpeter
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To: posterchild

coming soon...
two men to share a single seat for a Butterig-enforced 10 percent discount?


41 posted on 06/19/2022 7:08:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

These permanent leftist politicians absolutely believe in the necessity and power of government planning, and their God-given right to meddle in every person’s life.


42 posted on 06/19/2022 7:19:29 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: posterchild

“wound up driving from Washington to New York”. I thought he rode his bike everywhere. I hope he doesn’t use gasoline in that government provided “auto”.


43 posted on 06/19/2022 7:19:46 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: posterchild
From the article:Left unsaid is the difficulty these screeners have in reaching their destination due to cancelled flights.
44 posted on 06/19/2022 7:25:33 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf,
IOW, I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
45 posted on 06/19/2022 7:26:51 AM PDT by lewislynn (The Murdochs might be citizens but they aren't true blue Americans.)
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To: posterchild

“Act”

Perhaps this asshat should resign.


46 posted on 06/19/2022 7:39:04 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: oldasrocks

But not to land.


47 posted on 06/19/2022 8:00:54 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: FLT-bird

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pilots-injured-covid-vaccines-airlines-mandates/


48 posted on 06/19/2022 8:04:40 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: posterchild

The airline that most recently cancelled my flight was a planned nonstop from Barcelona to San Francisco—they are now offering me a one stop. Bait and switch! But Buttigeg can do nothing about it as it’s Iberia airlines (Spain).


49 posted on 06/19/2022 8:13:06 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: posterchild

Vaccine mandates are responsible.


50 posted on 06/19/2022 8:16:49 AM PDT by odawg ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Strutting on a video link is too difficult for the likes of ButtGig.


51 posted on 06/19/2022 8:45:54 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: healy61
I’ll bet he has a government paid credit card for gas.

AND submitted mileage expenses...
52 posted on 06/19/2022 9:08:21 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They want a command economy completely under the control of the Dem Party, just like Lenin.


53 posted on 06/19/2022 9:08:47 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: posterchild
Meanwhile...

Exclusive: More Vaccine-Injured Pilots Speak Out as Groups Pressure Airlines, Regulators to End Mandates In exclusive interviews with The Defender, more commercial airline pilots discuss COVID-19 vaccine injuries and the “hostile” industry environment injured and unvaxxed pilots must navigate.

54 posted on 06/19/2022 9:09:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: posterchild

If a company is’t making $$$, they begin a downward spiral.
2020-21 were very bad for airlines.
Now its fuel prices.


55 posted on 06/19/2022 9:24:24 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: srmanuel

You mean the Dems could claim these evil companies are ripping us off and the only solution is for the government to seize them in the name of the people? Gee! Why hasn’t anyone tried that before?


56 posted on 06/19/2022 10:15:53 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: posterchild

He would even be able to take his bicycle on board.
= = =

What’s that quote, something about a fish and a bicycle?

Oh, bees are fish. So bees and bicycles.

“B” uttigig and the Bicycle.


57 posted on 06/19/2022 11:29:16 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: griswold3

I admit it’s a crazy idea, has that ever stopped the Democrats before ??

Suppose Biden invoke the Defense Production Act and took effective control over Oil Production, same for the Airline industry or any other industry that Democrats claim is ripping off the public.


58 posted on 06/19/2022 11:55:25 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: healy61

#6 He should have rode his bicycle back.


59 posted on 06/19/2022 1:46:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: srmanuel

Maxine Waters would be in Socialist Heaven….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BdKkEKTrs. 9/2009


60 posted on 06/19/2022 2:07:39 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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