Posted on 07/02/2023 11:49:51 AM PDT by Libloather
Furious passengers began to lash out at Pete Buttigieg over the Forth of July weekend's travel chaos as 3,000K delayed or canceled flights has left thousands of people stranded.
Angry tweets slammed the Transportation Secretary for not fixing the airline industry as the number of Americans traveling by air for the holiday is expected to reach 25 million, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time in four years.
'Almost 3000 flights were delayed or cancelled this weekend. And this is after he said he would fix the airline industry,' one Twitter user lamented.
But Buttigieg doesn't appear worried with how embattled United Airlines plans to improve, and rather says he is 'focused' on making sure the U.S. airlines stay on track over the holiday as he warned of 'severe weather' causing even more delays and cancellations.
As of Sunday morning, there were about 500 flights within, into, or out of the United States that have been canceled already today. There have been another 2,234 flights delayed so far.
The chaos began ahead of the holiday weekend as storms began walloping the northeast and parts of the Midwest, causing mass delays and cancelations into and out of New York area airports.
Stranded passengers have reported having to sleep at the airport and stand in line for hours as they tried to rebook their flights, with some saying they were forced to wait several days for their checked bags.
Embattled United Airlines is offering furious passengers 30,000 air miles to try and convince them to stay loyal to the company following a week of cancellation chaos – forcing many to spend nights in airports with many never landing at their final destinations.
'We had a hard two days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that's put...
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His nipples have to be really sore.
Sure there may have been bad weather, but the FAA computer systems are out-of-date; not enough air traffic controllers, now that pot is legal in some states drug tests are showing pot use up to 30 days after use and pilots retired when the shot was required. All unforced errors by Butthead.
Pete knows nothing about transportation.
Granholm knows nothing about energy.
Which is why President Mashed-Potato Brain picked them to run their respective Departments.
Pete actually said, “The fix is in.”
And by “fix” he meant “$$$$$”.
You’re lucky — at least that was a benign TV appearance. I have some friends who still insist they saw me on the TV news looting a store in the nearby city during a blackout some years ago. LOL.
hey now can’t say anything negative about the chosen homo he’s off limits
You know damn well if a Republican were in the White House, the media would be attacking 24/7 on this.
LOL...that’s funny.
Pete’s queer. That’s all
I hope you said, “That wasn’t me; I was wearing a mask!”
Y’all just misunderstood.
When Butgigger said he would ‘fix’ the airlines, he meant it like when people say they are going to ‘fix the dog’.’
You beat me to the general idea.
GMTA
How's come we never hear about the gruntled ones?
Things that make you go...Hmmm!🤔
the forced Vax’s to shortage of qualified pilots
Therein lies the rub.
It’s a cinch Buttafugger has been fixed.
According to the article, the weather was limited to "the New York area airports." So why is there chaos in the July 4th travel plans for so many?
If this has a history of happening during high traffic holidays, then what has Buttigieg done since last December to encourage the airlines to rebase flights to optimize against high-traffic bottlenecks? What has Buttigieg done to the ATC system to account for local weather bottlenecks in the overall system?
-PJ
It’s fun to point fingers, butt i don’t believe Pete’s the problem.
I’m sure he’s still chest feeding. /shudder
He did fix the airlines ... they are significantly different from three years ago.
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