{"id":1916421,"date":"2023-04-18T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-months-after-buttigieg-promised-to-hold-them-accountable-southwest-delays-hundreds-of-flights\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T23:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:59:26","slug":"four-months-after-buttigieg-promised-to-hold-them-accountable-southwest-delays-hundreds-of-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-months-after-buttigieg-promised-to-hold-them-accountable-southwest-delays-hundreds-of-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest delays lots of flights four months after Buttigieg promised to hold them&#8221; Accountable.&#8221;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffour-months-after-buttigieg-promised-to-hold-them-accountable-southwest-delays-hundreds-of-flights%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=1916421&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--><br \/>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Months After Buttigieg Promised To Hold Southwest 'Accountable,' Airline Delays Hundreds of Flights\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/fox-news-dominion-settlement-payment\" data-post-url id=\"print-1718760\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Pete Buttigieg, the minister of transport for the United States Conference of Mayors&#8217; 91st Winter Meeting, will speak on January 20, 2023, in Washington, DC. The standard non-partisan company for cities with groups of 30,000 or more is called the United States Conference of Mayors. Mayors may be welcomed to the White House by President Joe Biden this noon. ( Drew Angerer \/ Getty Images photo )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Southwest Airlines ordered a yard stop, which prevents flights that aren&#8217;t already in the air from taking off and delays at least 1, 820 flights across the nation, four months after transport director Pete Buttigieg pledged to keep the airline responsible for widespread flight delays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, the Tuesday disturbance was caused by a&#8221; vendor-supplied firewall&#8221; failure that resulted in the loss of operational data. At 10:36 a.m., Southwest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAANews\/status\/1648334637574356994\">tweeted<\/a> that it wanted to&#8221; hesitate&#8221; before taking off. Even before noon, the aircraft resumed operations.<\/p>\n<p><span>When Southwest experienced a severe system meltdown in December, leading to 16,700 flight cancellations \u2014 nearly half of its schedule \u2014 between December 20 and 29, Buttigieg came under intense fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than two dozen House Democrats <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/heres-what-the-faa-has-been-focused-on-instead-of-keeping-planes-in-the-air\/\"><span>wrote a letter<\/span><\/a><span> to Buttigieg in January demanding the transportation secretary penalize Southwest Airlines for the cancellations. &#8220;We believe much more needs to be done,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Buttigieg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm-tuesday\/index.html\"><span>claimed<\/span><\/a><span> in December that he &#8220;made clear&#8221; to the airline\u2019s CEO &#8220;that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Southwest would be held accountable, according to the secretary, in order to&#8221; make sure that this doesn&#8217;t happen again.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tuesday&#8217;s incident is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1699101\"><span>latest<\/span><\/a><span> transportation crisis to take place under Buttigieg&#8217;s watch, two months after he faced bipartisan criticism for his slow response after a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a chemical spill. But Buttigieg has directed his agency to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/buttigieg-racism-scandal\/\"><span>focus<\/span><\/a><span> on racist highways and roadways. Polling found the majority of Americans <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1702134\"><span>want<\/span><\/a><span> him to quit the role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JANUARY 20: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during the United States Conference of Mayors 91st Winter Meeting January 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. The United States Conference of Mayors is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. 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