{"id":1789893,"date":"2022-12-29T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789893"},"modified":"2022-12-29T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:48:41","slug":"transportation-sec-buttigieg-ignored-warnings-from-state-attorneys-general-on-chaotic-christmas-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transportation-sec-buttigieg-ignored-warnings-from-state-attorneys-general-on-chaotic-christmas-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Sec Buttigieg Ignored Warnings From State Attorney\u2019s General on Chaotic Christmas Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransportation-sec-buttigieg-ignored-warnings-from-state-attorneys-general-on-chaotic-christmas-travel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has ignored state attorneys general\u2019s repeated requests to protect consumers and hold airlines accountable for canceling flights in the months leading up to the ongoing holiday travel fiasco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The Christmas holiday season was plagued by thousands of flights\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/28\/travel-woes-continue-southwest-canceled-over-2600-flights-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelations<\/a>Southwest Airlines, which was led by Southwest Airlines, failed to regain their footing following a severe winter storm that hit the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg will be under greater scrutiny as he penalizes Southwest Airlines for thousands of cancelled flights. However, Buttigieg has been urged repeatedly to hold these airlines accountable during this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Letitia James, New York&#8217;s Attorney General (D), sent Buttigieg an email over the summer.\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/letter_from_ny_ag_letitia_james_to_secretary_pete_buttigieg_8.2.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0That was the warning \u201cthe deeply troubling and escalating pattern of airlines delaying and canceling flights\u201d During holiday flight seasons. James\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/letter_from_ny_ag_letitia_james_to_secretary_pete_buttigieg_8.2.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airlines blame cancellations on staff shortages, especially because of a purported shortage in airline pilots. The pilot shortage, however, is due in large measure to airline actions, such as forcing pilots into early retirement, or shrinking their pilot pool.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after James\u2019s letter, a coalition of 38 bipartisan state attorneys general sent a\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-31-Airline-Accountability-and-Increased-Consumer-Protection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0Congressional leaders accused the Department of Transportation of creating an environment that was conducive to drug use. \u201callows airlines to mistreat consumers and leaves consumers without effective redress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf state attorneys general had a substantial and meaningful role in overseeing airline consumer protection, the failure of the US DOT would be ameliorated by the ability of state attorneys general to enforce the law,\u201d The state attorneys general\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-31-Airline-Accountability-and-Increased-Consumer-Protection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.MA) sent an additional message over the summer.\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2022.07.25%20Letter%20to%20DOT%20re%20airline%20consumer%20protection%20and%20competition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0John Putnam, General Counsel for the Transportation Department, and Buttigieg urging the agency to \u201cfully utilize its statutory authority to protect consumers and promote competition in the airline industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">These are repeated statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has ignored state attorneys general\u2019s repeated requests to protect consumers and hold airlines accountable for canceling flights in the months leading up to the ongoing holiday travel fiasco. The Christmas holiday season was plagued by thousands of flights\u00a0cancelationsSouthwest Airlines, which was led by Southwest Airlines, failed to regain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4849,5458,4943,12421,6922,3819,8068,3951,4068],"class_list":["post-1789893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-attorneys","tag-bongino","tag-buttigieg","tag-chaotic","tag-christmas","tag-report","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-warnings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}