Summer travel headache: More than 1,000
flights are canceled across the US today
as Pete Buttigieg tells airline execs
to clean up their act before July 4 after
1,700 flights were canceled on Thursday,
including 40% out of NYC's LaGuardia
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/17/2022 4:11:40 PM
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told airline executives to clean up their act and avoid another flying catastrophe before July 4 as a record number of flights were canceled across the US for a second day in a row. On Friday, as of 11am, more than 1,000 flights across the US have been canceled and more than 2,300 have been delayed. LaGuardia is the second highest in the US for cancelations today, with 98 flights, with Charlotte Douglas Airport leading the pack with 113 cancelations.(Snip)Buttigieg, alongside millions of other travelers, are tired of what feels like constant cancelations without so much as an apology from the airlines.
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bulletproof panel 4 replies
by bullet-shattered glass did not have
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to Follow Any State Laws Restricting Abortion Access 81 replies
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Some were already waiting outside when the clinic opened at 9 a.m., doing their best to ignore a group of protesters at the parking lot entrance, shouting at them through a loudspeaker. “You don’t have to go in!” the activists pleaded with the women. “They murder babies!”
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The showboating gay rat flies private at US taxpayer expense when he blows out to San Fran or Fire Island; who is he kidding? And what a nerve he has lecturing others on how to do their jobs; clown couldn't even keep the potholes filled in South Bend, and he's a US cabinet official purely on the merits of his being a pervert who the agencies see as a possible future president of this failed nation.