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Posted on 12/09/2025 9:05:11 AM PST by Miami Rebel
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today launched his “Make Travel Family Friendly Again” campaign ahead of a busy holiday travel season. The goal of the campaign is to address a common refrain from the public – it can be challenging to travel as a family. From needing more dedicated spaces for young children and exercise equipment, to finding places for mothers to nurse their children, to staying fit on the go, or struggling to find more healthy food options, the Trump Administration is committed to making every stage of the travel journey more seamless.
To improve families’ experiences in airport terminals, Secretary Duffy announced $1 billion in funding to incentivize more family-friendly resources in airport terminals. This can include:
Creating more children’s play areas or exercise areas Adding mothers’ rooms or nursing pods Reconfiguring security checkpoints to create family screening lanes Building sensory rooms for children with special needs Other creative terminal projects that focus on enhancing the family travel journey As part of the campaign launch, Secretary Duffy was joined by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Paul Saladino, a double board-certified Physician Nutrition Specialist, Isabel Brown, a content creator and young mom, and Luke Saunders, the CEO and Founder of Farmer’s Fridge.
In addition to the federal funding USDOT is providing to enhance physical infrastructure, the group also emphasized the administration’s interest in collaborating with airports and private sector partners to improve access to nutritional food options.
“Bringing about a Golden Age in travel has to involve making the family travel experience happier and healthier. Today’s announcement demonstrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to enacting a Family First agenda and improving the lives of the American people,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy.
“Everyone who passes through an airport in this country should have access to fresh, whole foods,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “Secretary Duffy and I are working to ensure our airports set the standard for a future where healthy eating is part of daily life—travel days included.”
Expanding Access to Healthy Foods
Farmer’s Fridge and other grab and go healthy food options have become increasingly popular in airports across the country to fit the public’s growing appetite for fresh, nutritional meals. Secretary Duffy and Secretary Kennedy highlighted this healthy vending machine option and encourages airports across the country to join this moment and expand their food options.
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How about making airports more family friendly by arresting mob fighters?
Spending 1 billion is ridiculous. These guys seem to ignore the 38 trillion and growing. Strange that we survived air flight without work out gear, showers and playgrounds all these years. This is big government at its worst.
How about making planes safe to fly again. 🤔
> Secretary Duffy announced $1 billion in funding to incentivize more family-friendly resources in airport terminals. <
The United States is a debtor nation. So to be more accurate:
Secretary Duffy announced $1 billion in borrowed money to incentivize more family-friendly resources in airport terminals.
🙁
I agree.
I don’t like air travel much anymore, because it’s such a hassle, but I don’t want government pouring money into like this.
Just throw more money at it.
How about enforcing stricter guidelines on dress code, taking shoes off on planes, support dogs, permanently banning people doing insane things on planes, but that’s too much work.
Instead spend more play areas.
“”Spending 1 billion is ridiculous.””
DITTO! He must have gotten this bright idea traveling with HIS own family which numbers how many kids? Nine!!!
No - No!!
Driving to the airport.
Parking your car.
Hiking to the terminal.
Checking your luggage.
Going through security screening.
Checking in at the gate.
Waiting for boarding.
Sitting at the gate.
Taxing to the runway.
Shouldn’t take longer than the flight to your destination.
Can airlines and airports pay for all of this?
Yep! Everything he’s doing is selfless. If we have to spend a billion, hire more air traffic controllers. Of course, I’d rather he not spend anything.
If he's spending federal money to get exercise equipment and healthy food into airports, he's going in the wrong direction. Spend money to get travelers through the ticketing and security process as quickly as possible with the least invasive searches as possible, and to make sure flights are on time.
Kids young enough to need special spaces shouldn’t be in airports: Keep them at home until they’ve grown up enough to be civilized.
Translation: The cities where these airports are located are turd-world dumps so we need to build more into the airports so travelers do not need to leave the safety of the airport fortress.
Flying has become miserable. Between the power drunk TSA, comfort animals, being treated like cattle and the rest of it we will not fly unless there is no choice.
Your translation is crazier than the actual proposal.
A, I don’t think that airports have sufficient real estate to carve out spaces for children or for gyms, so Duffy’s campaign is going to go nowhere.
B. Infants and toddlers travel all the time. Are you proposing a minimum age?
Something. Maybe screaming meamy flights and non-screaming meamy flights.
???
Most major airports are under control of quasi-government agencies set up to be separate from the cities they're contained in. Pick your city: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Portland, etc.
Travelers don't want to go into the local dump.
It's like the one rule of Apocalypse now:
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