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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He’s using the skills he learned at McKinsey...doing nothing.
Easy solution. Don’t fly.
purposely ruining the 4 th for “all Americans”
Friend of mine and his family were left stranded in NY and were told to rent a car from hertz drive to Florida we will honor the cost, hertz charged them 2400 dollars for 1 mid sized car 1 day would not honor anything as well as jet blue. scumbags scams the American people on the holiday weekend
Peter sucks
The True Believer naive Demodunce.
Pete took the time to complain about the supreme court ruling. Probably should be spending time fixing the airline problems....
Pete Buttigieg Attacks Christian Web Designer at Center of Supreme Court Ruling
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/pete-buttigieg-attacks-christian-web-designer-center-supreme/
People have money to fly?
United’s problems are only going to get worse in the years to come.
The airline management wants 50% of the new hires to be either women or minorities.
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