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

[ExodusNirvana]

What is his job speifically???

Working with special interest groups (99% CACs) to add bike lanes and remove cars from cities.

Go ahead...check where some of this "infrastructure" funding goes while roads and bridges have holes the size of people in em and the airline industry is essentially doing what it wants all while using the economic hardships of COVID to justify their fukkery.

Remember: the soups of the day are climate change and "public safety"

 

[Pressure]

Doesn't seem all bad

 

[CrimsonTider]

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.

Absolutely not

 

[CrimsonTider]

This is so silly

Do better

 

[LOST IN THE SAUCE]

Absolutely not

 

[CrimsonTider]

The problem is due to staff shortages. Fining airlines accomplishes what.

I appreciate Bernie for applying pressure but come on now

 

[mastermind]

But none of this is on Pete and really tracks back across multiple administrations despite the alarm sounding for the better part of a decade. Estimates suggest we're short 80k Commercial pilots .

You're doing the thing again.

No one is blaming Buttigieg for this, but you in this post and the subsequent did exactly what Buttigieg has been trying to do which is ignoring the problem.

And the rest of your post was a bunch of word salad which is what it listed in the prior articles. Fines may be an answer. Actually saying something about the situation and saying you will do something is better than Buttigieg is currently doing.

 

[Pressure]

Absolutely not

The problem is due to staff shortages. Fining airlines accomplishes what.

I appreciate Bernie for applying pressure but come on now

Folks are doing a mixture of:

1.) rejecting the fact that staff shortages are real
2.) upset that airlines used Covid funds to offer early retirements to airline workers.

The problem with the latter is these actions were taken in the summer of 2020 and now we’re seeing the results 2 years later as the world begins to travel again post Covid.

Everything is reactionary and not forward thinking.

 

[mastermind]

1.) rejecting the fact that staff shortages are real

No one has done this.

2.) upset that airlines used Covid funds to offer early retirements to airline workers.

Yes! So now let's hold the airlines accountable.

 

[Pressure]

You're doing the thing again.

No one is blaming Buttigieg for this, but you in this post and the subsequent did exactly what Buttigieg has been trying to do which is ignoring the problem.

And the rest of your post was a bunch of word salad which is what it listed in the prior articles. Fines may be an answer. Actually saying something about the situation and saying you will do something is better than Buttigieg is currently doing.

My nikka the entire thread is about Pete Buttigieg not doing enough as DOT secretary and the evidence is citing flight delays.

The primary issue for flight delays is staff shortages. There’s no safe quick fix for that that Pete can take.

As far as the rest, Pete has asked people to file their complaints with the FAA/DOT so they can follow the long standing and results driven process.

You’re doing that thing again where you pretend to offer a solution without offering anything.

Or that other thing where you ignore all the evidence you don’t like to push something that makes you feel good regardless of if it is effective.

 

[Pressure]

No one has done this.

Yes! So now let's hold the airlines accountable.

More hollow words. How are you holding them accountable? And for what?

Nothing the airlines did was illegal.
Fines aren’t going to increase staffing.
There’s already a DOT process in place for complaints over long delays and insufficient compensation.

 

[mastermind]

My nikka the entire thread is about Pete Buttigieg not doing enough as DOT secretary and the evidence is citing flight delays.

no.

This is why you should read the articles and even the tweets. The bytching is about the pilot shortage causing flight delays and cancellations. What people are critiquing Buttigieg over is that he is pretending the problem isn't happening and not doing anything about it.

This is the second time you've done that in this thread, where earlier you were saying most people were being homophobic based off one poster being homophobic.

You keep saying its not Buttigieg's fault that this is happening where people are saying, "Hey Secretary of the Department of Transportation, do something! There is precedent."

Instead, you've made posts in this thread on some, "well he shouldn't do anything because it won't matter ," and "this been going on before Pete, so he shouldn't find any solutions "

You don't make sense.

 

[CrimsonTider]

no.

This is why you should read the articles and even the tweets. The bytching is about the pilot shortage causing flight delays and cancellations. What people are critiquing Buttigieg over is that he is pretending the problem isn't happening and not doing anything about it.

This is the second time you've done that in this thread, where earlier you were saying most people were being homophobic based off one poster being homophobic.

You keep saying its not Buttigieg's fault that this is happening where people are saying, "Hey Secretary of the Department of Transportation, do something! There is precedent."

Instead, you've made posts in this thread on some, "well he shouldn't do anything because it won't matter ," and "this been going on before Pete, so he shouldn't find any solutions "

You don't make sense.

What is he suppose to be doing?

 

[Pressure]

miniaturemind babble

Just to make sure you're upset because I said:

The DOT should fine carriers for chronically delayed and canceled flights.

Pete shouldn't be criticized for making sure passengers know their rights.

Those fines won't address the underlying issues causing flight delays which is a shortage due to the nearly 50k workers who left during covid.


As far as inaction, we will see what his response is following this holiday weekend nd if he will back up his words from last month's meetings with airline CEOs discussing the matter.

U.S. transport chief presses airlines after delays, cancellations

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday urged airline executives to ensure summer flight schedules are followed after a recent spate of cancellations, a source told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

 

[Hood Critic]

A few key points highlighted by the biggest pilot union in the world:

News Room - ALPA

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) is the largest airline pilot union in the world and represents more than 78,000 pilots at 41 U.S. and Canadian airlines. Founded in 1931, the Association is chartered by the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. Known internationally as...

www.alpa.org

“As evidenced by the recent 65 percent spike in flight delays and cancellations, it is clear to all that the airlines have mismanaged this critical relief package, which was specifically designed to make certain that airlines were prepared to meet the increase in travel demand we are experiencing today,” said Capt. Joe DePete, ALPA president.

Despite receiving $63 billion in taxpayer subsidies to help prevent the industry from buckling under the weight of a drastic and sustained reduction in air travel unlike anything ever seen before, airline executives are now attempting to distract the flying public by blaming their failures on others. ALPA asserts they have no one to blame but themselves. While a few airlines have rightly admitted that their failure to plan has resulted in pilot training backlogs and operational meltdowns, others are trying to use this crisis of their own making to weaken safety regulations that make certain pilots are properly qualified and trained.

Currently, many U.S. airlines are claiming they cannot hire pilots fast enough as the aviation industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and air travel demand rebounds. Ironically, the taxpayer money taken by airlines was expressly intended to keep workers on the payroll so that the companies could meet the increased travel demand the industry is experiencing today. Contrary to what airlines try to portray, five of the seven largest passenger air carriers currently have more pilots now than they did in 2019 prior to the pandemic.