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Buttigieg: Government Will Hold Southwest Airlines Accountable
Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2022 | Pam Key

Posted on 12/27/2022 6:04:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the government will hold Southwest Airlines accountable as they canceled thousands of flights over a system meltdown.

Buttigieg said, “I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. They indicated a number of issues that they’re having with systems, legacy systems for managing their schedule and where their crews are, but the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into Friday of last week. As of today, as I’m looking at the different airlines, most of them are in the low single digits in terms of cancellation rates, averaging about five percent for all of the other airlines. For Southwest right now, we appear to be north of 70 percent. So their system really has completely melted down. And I made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accountable; airlines; buttgig; buttigieg; communist; communistic; government; mayorpete; petebuttigieg; southwest; travel
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To: bankwalker

Buttigieg is not qualified for the position he holds.

All he can do is run his mouth and threaten industries with more pain, on top of the pain and incompetence he has already provided by his being unqualified for the job; non-stop transportation and supply chain issues and Petey-B on maternity leave and endless vacations.


21 posted on 12/27/2022 6:19:47 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hunter Biden available to run it?


22 posted on 12/27/2022 6:20:45 PM PST by delchiante
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To: nascarnation

Exactly.

;-)


23 posted on 12/27/2022 6:21:14 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If we can’t hold government accountable, we’ll blame the airlines in this mess.


24 posted on 12/27/2022 6:21:23 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: cp124

Don’t give them any ideas.

Sounds like the direction ButtEdgeEdge is trying to take it.


25 posted on 12/27/2022 6:22:22 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My son was supposed to be on a SW flight tomorrow but it was canceled. The same flight for today was canceled. He explained the problem the same way Buttigieg did — their scheduling system crapped out so they don’t know where their crews are, so they have to schedule everything manually.

Now, whether Buttigieg can or will do something about it is another story. Because people in his position are always going to DO...SOMETHING.. about every problem, even if they don’t know what that solution is.


26 posted on 12/27/2022 6:22:27 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: bankwalker

It’s a she.


27 posted on 12/27/2022 6:23:37 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Buttigieg is mentally ill.
28 posted on 12/27/2022 6:23:55 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Buttplug will be held accountable too.


29 posted on 12/27/2022 6:24:37 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who holds the government accountable?


30 posted on 12/27/2022 6:24:38 PM PST by Spok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s ridiculous...When will people learn to just stay home...we have all sorts of ways to communicate these days.


31 posted on 12/27/2022 6:24:54 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Tijeras_Slim

All this from a pillow biter.


32 posted on 12/27/2022 6:25:11 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Hambone 1934

This was not bad weather.

Southwest had some big problem.

I don’t like Buttgig either.

Might be just big talk.

But something serious went wrong with Southwest.


33 posted on 12/27/2022 6:26:03 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Bshaw
Buttigieg is not qualified for the position he holds.

Little Petey is useless, but big picture; what is the Secretary of Transportation supposed to do, anyway? Just another empty title in the Court of St. James.

34 posted on 12/27/2022 6:26:10 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: PghBaldy

Yes.

People commenting don’t know the background.

I have no confidence or belief in this administration. I’m not commenting on what they might do or not do.

But something seriously wrong happened to Southwest.


35 posted on 12/27/2022 6:29:36 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So we can’t hold Maricopa County responsibly for major issues with their election systems, but given a major winter storm and airlines need to work perfectly?


36 posted on 12/27/2022 6:29:57 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: bankwalker

He got the job because he’s gay and thats it


37 posted on 12/27/2022 6:30:35 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: PghBaldy

Or it is the one with the most complicated network of flights.


38 posted on 12/27/2022 6:31:03 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ifinnegan

Then they did exactly the right thing by cancelling flights if they had a system failure.


39 posted on 12/27/2022 6:32:02 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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Looks like Buttjuice is gonna have a tantie


40 posted on 12/27/2022 6:32:26 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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