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Buttigieg: Government Will Hold Southwest Airlines Accountable
Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2022 | Pam Key

Posted on 12/27/2022 6:04:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the government will hold Southwest Airlines accountable as they canceled thousands of flights over a system meltdown.

Buttigieg said, “I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. They indicated a number of issues that they’re having with systems, legacy systems for managing their schedule and where their crews are, but the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into Friday of last week. As of today, as I’m looking at the different airlines, most of them are in the low single digits in terms of cancellation rates, averaging about five percent for all of the other airlines. For Southwest right now, we appear to be north of 70 percent. So their system really has completely melted down. And I made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accountable; airlines; buttgig; buttigieg; communist; communistic; government; mayorpete; petebuttigieg; southwest; travel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pete is a queer....that’s all


121 posted on 12/28/2022 4:45:09 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: Old Yeller
Maybe the board of directors should fire the CEO.

Then the shareholders should sue the people who elected the BOD!

I just remember Reagan's maxim:

The nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

122 posted on 12/28/2022 4:47:24 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They caused climate change by flying airplanes. Therefore, they are responsible for not being able to fly airplanes during a blizzard, because they caused it by flying airplanes. Repeat until it makes sense. Then check in to your local nut house.


123 posted on 12/28/2022 4:51:03 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: mastertex
As usual, Buttplug is wrong. Good idea....even if Buttplug could hold them responsible who would enforce the plan. Buttplug should go and play with his Wiff.
124 posted on 12/28/2022 5:42:21 AM PST by mastertex (mastertex)
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To: Political Junkie Too

As usual, Buttplug is wrong. Good idea....even if Buttplug could hold them responsible who would enforce the plan. Buttplug should go and play with his Wiff.


125 posted on 12/28/2022 5:43:13 AM PST by mastertex (mastertex)
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To: Political Junkie Too

As usual, Buttplug is wrong. Good idea....even if Buttplug could hold them responsible who would enforce the plan. Buttplug should go and play with his Wiff.


126 posted on 12/28/2022 5:44:01 AM PST by mastertex (mastertex)
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To: Political Junkie Too

As usual, Butt wipe is wrong. Good idea....even if Butt hole could hold them responsible who would enforce the plan. Buttface should go and play with his boy Wiff.


127 posted on 12/28/2022 5:44:48 AM PST by mastertex (mastertex)
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To: nascarnation

SW’s software is a disaster.

The solution is to use affirmative action in hiring to create equity.

;-)


128 posted on 12/28/2022 5:51:54 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Freedom56v2

He’s trying to head off any that may come HIS way.


129 posted on 12/28/2022 5:51:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yah ButtGig at his finest: holding a hissy fit of no consequence. Did he stamp his little feet and hold his breath?

How about talking about having few rested cabin crews available because of WHouse’s asinine insistence on WuhanFlu restrictions? What, haven’t they heard that their owners, the CCP, is backing off on such stupidity?


130 posted on 12/28/2022 5:52:18 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Secret Agent Man
when will government US citizens! hold government accountable!?!?!?
131 posted on 12/28/2022 5:53:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was on one of the SW flights last night - from Denver to San Antonio. It was scheduled to arrive in San Antonio at 7:30 PM, and didn’t get in until midnight. The problems appeared to me to be a union slowdown. I tracked our incoming airplane on Flight Aware. It appeared to be on time at the start, but then its take-off time kept getting delayed, just a few minutes at a time. It wound up taking off three hours late, and, of course, arrived at Denver 3 hours late.

Then., after we boarded, we kept getting delayed, just a few minutes at a time. At one point, the pilot announced we were waiting for more luggage. Finally, quite a while later, he announced: “The cargo doors are closed, and we hope to be going in about 5 minutes”. It seemed odd to me that it would take that long. Then, it actually took 15 minutes.

When we finally got the approval to leave, the crew actually pushed the pre-flight announcements faster than I’ve ever seen. It was like they were trying to get through it before some other delay happened. I’ve never heard a group of people talk that quickly before.

The push back from the gate was excruciatingly slow. The plane moved at a snail’s pace for at least 5 more minutes. It moved so slowly that the motion was barely perceptible, even looking out through the window.

When we finally got to San Antonio, the plane stopped at the gate, and then waited ANOTHER 15 minutes for the door to be opened. The pilot announced that the door opening crew was not there, even though we were the ONLY AIRPLANE AT ANY OF THE GATES!


132 posted on 12/28/2022 5:56:53 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: gitmo; Southside_Chicago_Republican; matt04
Luggage?

Did SOMEONE say, "LUGGAGE???"



133 posted on 12/28/2022 5:57:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: lepton

“Or it is the one with the most complicated network of flights.”

I know American Airlines has an entire department of DevOps people who are tasked with fixing these issues on the fly. (No pun intended) Sometimes systems break and need ad-hoc coding with emergency changes implemented as a work-around to keep the systems up and running until a permanent fix can be installed.

If this happens at a busy time, let’s say Christmas week and then add to it storms and other issues, you are going to have problems. Just like SW did. However, in saying that, SW still has to make it right for their customers.


134 posted on 12/28/2022 6:00:16 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: bert

Forget Abbott and Costello's, "Who's on First?", tonight I am gonna be on TOP!

135 posted on 12/28/2022 6:02:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PghBaldy

Total aging software failure, per insider reports
No fix expected before January

Buttplug, his husband and babies not personally affected, prob enjoying a Christmas holiday


136 posted on 12/28/2022 6:02:44 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Elsie

137 posted on 12/28/2022 6:04:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Hu's on first


138 posted on 12/28/2022 6:05:58 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Buttigieg.... This POS is just more absolute living proof that the boat is about to hit the iceberg... :(
139 posted on 12/28/2022 6:14:52 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Pete,
F-you ya freak show.


140 posted on 12/28/2022 6:44:35 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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