Pete Buttigieg is a failure at the U.S. Department of Transportation - UPDATE: He's improved!!

[the cac mamba]

There is only one poster in this thread doing that.

The first post has articles and tweets laying out what he can do.

there's a lot of small town mayors in america. im sorry for asking what exactly elevated this dude over all the rest of them

 

[Drake's Tan]

there's a lot of small town mayors in america. im sorry for asking what exactly elevated this dude over all the rest of them

I think he was talking about me

I share your sentiment though. I don't care about his sexuality, but the way he paraded it around like it's some sort of reason to elect him to a higher office leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It reminds me of the flip side of the people who are attacking Biden's choice for the Nuclear Waste management post. While I don't really approve of his (their?) lifestyle, the guy (guys?) is well qualified based on his degrees and CV for such a role.

That said, I need to look more into what "Mayor" Pete's current role is supposed to entail before giving a serious response to the OP.

 

[Pressure]

There is only one poster in this thread doing that.

The first post has articles and tweets laying out what he can do.

The problem is a shortage of staff
Which as the first tweets point out were a result of the 120k+ reduction in workforce between the start of 2019 and the end of 2020.

There’s a worker shortage, that led to delays, because airlines used their 54bn to retain workers to provide early retirement. But that has nothing to do with Pete since all of that took place before he took office.

We can have a discussion, but I’m not going to waste my time if you all can even start with the basic facts.

Are we mad Pete isn’t forcing airline to overwork their staff or are we going to be pro labor here and listen to the complaints of airline staff?

 

[Pressure]

For perspective

Airline workers throughout US oppose overwork, health and safety violations

Delta, Southwest and Spirit workers have organized protests across the country to oppose understaffing and exhausting conditions.

www.wsws.org

‘We’re just robots’: US airline workers stranded amid staff shortages

Flight attendants report sleeping on airport floors when employers fail to find them hotel rooms

www.theguardian.com

 

[mastermind]

There’s a worker shortage, that led to delays, because airlines used their 54bn to retain workers to provide early retirement. But that has nothing to do with Pete since all of that took place before he took office.

We can have a discussion, but I’m not going to waste my time if you all can even start with the basic facts

this is gabble goo.

from the “day job” article:

An example of what the DOT could do but isn’t doing was a rule issued in 2010 by President Obama’s transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, a Republican no less. At the time, there had been an outpouring of complaints about tarmac delays stretching back over a decade. When a flight left the gate but was not able to take off because of congestion or weather problems, the airlines found it more expedient to just let passengers sit on the tarmac for many hours rather than bring the plane back to the gate and let people disembark and wait in the terminal or make other travel plans.

The result was delays stretching out as long as 12 hours as planes ran out of water, food, and functioning toilets. After numerous administrations and Congress failed to act, LaHood, under his general authority, issued a rule providing for per-passenger fines of $27,500 per passenger and requiring airlines to let passengers off after no more than three hours. The airlines complained but complied. Buttigieg could do no less with regard to fraudulent schedules and insufficient crews.

An issue tranapired for years before Lahood took over, and he did something.

Acting like Buttigieg’s hands are tied is bullshyt. He and the administration seem uninterested in this.

 

[Pressure]

this is gabble goo.

from the “day job” article:



An issue tranapired for years before Lahood took over, and he did something.

Acting like Buttigieg’s hands are tied is bullshyt. He and the administration seem uninterested in this.

They’re talking about the 10 years prior to Obama instituting the rule. Not the 10 years from today.

Slow down and read better.

Do you disagree there are a shortage in workers?
Do you agree this is the result of airlines misusing Covid funds meant to retain workers and instead in furloughing them or offering early retirement?

As long as there is a shortage of workers and high demand all the fines will do is lead to less offerings. Which imo should be the concern here when airlines are booking more flights than they can staff.

 

[Pressure]

Everyone:
Flight delays are due to an uptick in travel post Covid relaxations,worker shortages and weather. The shortages shouldn’t be an issue since they were provided money to combat that during the downswing in travel.

@mastermind: nah they’re just doing it on purpose.

 

[Mister Terrific]

What I read was that the airlines instead of investing in training new pilots and establishing pilot schools for this purpose simply pocketed the money. This is an issue many knew was going to come to a head for years but the airline sought short term gratification instead of long term planning.

I don’t care about Pete and I thought the DOT was a cushy post so he can have something on his resume for running for whatever office the Dems direct him to but I don’t see how this is his fault. Hell nationalize one of these airlines and start building pilot schools. Sounds like a good jobs program.

 

[mastermind]

They’re talking about the 10 years prior to Obama instituting the rule

No breh, you misread/misunderstood/intentionally misleading. The issue was before Obama admin took over and got worse that year. LaHood and Co started fining and it stopped. Saying, “this was a problem before Buttigieg took over and he can’t do anything,” is bullshyt which you attempted to peddle.

 

[mastermind]

but I don’t see how this is his fault

No one is blaming him for this issue. This is another instance of misunderstanding the point. People are upset because Buttigieg hasn’t attempted to do anything about it.

 

[LOST IN THE SAUCE]

They’re talking about the 10 years prior to Obama instituting the rule. Not the 10 years from today.

Slow down and read better.

Do you disagree there are a shortage in workers?
Do you agree this is the result of airlines misusing Covid funds meant to retain workers and instead in furloughing them or offering early retirement?

As long as there is a shortage of workers and high demand all the fines will do is lead to less offerings. Which imo should be the concern here when airlines are booking more flights than they can staff.

You really don't think fining the airlines will help at all?
I'm pretty confident that if they were being cracked down on they would find a way to solve the issue pretty quickly. You say less offerings, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't just lead to a race to comply with the competing airlines.

 

[mastermind]

You really don't think fining the airlines will help at all?
I'm pretty confident that if they were being cracked down on they would find a way to solve the issue pretty quickly. You say less offerings, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't just lead to a race to comply with the competing airlines.

My thing is Dude loves being on camera and having his face out there to get his profile up.

He has the chance to do something or at least publicly advocate for regular Americans over what these airlines are doing.

He won’t do it because he ain’t fighting for regular Americans.

 

[Payday23]

Isn't this the guy hired with no experience in the transportation sector,?

 

[LOST IN THE SAUCE]

My thing is Dude loves being on camera and having his face out there to get his profile up.

He has the chance to do something or at least publicly advocate for regular Americans over what these airlines are doing.

He won’t do it because he ain’t fighting for regular Americans.

Agreed. I've never cared for Buttigieg at all.
I'm not familiar enough with the power that the DOT possesses to have commented on previous criticisms of his performances that I've seen, but I feel like the articles in this thread paint a pretty clear picture of what he should do, and I haven't seen a sensible reason for why he isn't doing more.

 

[NZA]

this is like having ben carson as head of HUD