Anonymous wrote:I can’t read this whole big dumb thread but there are at least two major issues that have nothing to do with Biden or Pete:
1) airlines used to her all their pilots retrained by the USAF. Now the USAF uses drones so they’ve lost their pipeline and are super slow to realize that. Pilots tot old and retired. There is a major shortage.
2) with covid a bunch of older folks retired plus airlines deferred new purchases and maintenance for a couple of years. They are all behind now. The air traffic controllers are tragically understaffed.
Oh and three
3) Boeing sucks. All those airlines had to remove Boeing from their rosters at various points which caused major problems.
Anonymous wrote:Elaine Chao resigned in disgust of Trump after Jan 6. Chalk her up as another competent person who will never work for Trump again.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying within the last 3 years has been a horrific experience. Delaya, delays, and more delays. Lost baggage constant, filthy planes and airports,.....it's like the US has devolved into a 2nd world country and gives zero craps anymore about maintaining standards. Travel has just gotten so, sooooooo bad under Biden. And what does his transportation secretary Mayor Pete do? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No pressure on ailrines ever even after they got tons of taxpayer dollars to stay alive. Consumers have almost no recourse and airlines screw up and do something like lose your baggage on a direct flight. Travel in the US and from th US using American airlines is just horrific experience and yet all Biden's hiree mayor Pete does is collect paychecks and do nothing. Biden hired him because he was a diversity hire, but the end results are a disastrous decline in the quality and standards for travel to and from the US.
I've now been on 3 flights domestically within the last 3 years. 2 lost baggage on a friggin direct flight, and the other had such significant delays that it ruined a lot of lodging plans and plans at the destination causing thousands in losses. Of course it has been impossible to obtain any kind of compensation because the airlines' mistakes caused major delays. I'm so done with Biden. We need a competent leader who'll hire the best candidates to do critical jobs like running this country's transportation infrastructure, not have a leader in office who throws a bone to diversity candidates who have no idea what they're doing.
And in your pea brain, Trump will hire competent people?
I have flown several times this year with zero issues.
Yes, because he already did - Ellen Chao - whose resume included (at the time of appointment:
1) US Secretary of Labor
2) Director of Peace Corps
3) Deputy Director of Transportation
4) Chair of the US Maritime Commission
5) Director of the US Maritime Commission.
Had Biden been smart, he would have begged her to stay, rather then hire an incompetent ex-mayor whose sole experience was as a failed mayor of a small midwestern town. Of course he has failed.
Elaine Chao resigned in disgust of Trump after Jan 6. Chalk her up as another competent person who will never work for Trump again.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying within the last 3 years has been a horrific experience. Delaya, delays, and more delays. Lost baggage constant, filthy planes and airports,.....it's like the US has devolved into a 2nd world country and gives zero craps anymore about maintaining standards. Travel has just gotten so, sooooooo bad under Biden. And what does his transportation secretary Mayor Pete do? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No pressure on ailrines ever even after they got tons of taxpayer dollars to stay alive. Consumers have almost no recourse and airlines screw up and do something like lose your baggage on a direct flight. Travel in the US and from th US using American airlines is just horrific experience and yet all Biden's hiree mayor Pete does is collect paychecks and do nothing. Biden hired him because he was a diversity hire, but the end results are a disastrous decline in the quality and standards for travel to and from the US.
I've now been on 3 flights domestically within the last 3 years. 2 lost baggage on a friggin direct flight, and the other had such significant delays that it ruined a lot of lodging plans and plans at the destination causing thousands in losses. Of course it has been impossible to obtain any kind of compensation because the airlines' mistakes caused major delays. I'm so done with Biden. We need a competent leader who'll hire the best candidates to do critical jobs like running this country's transportation infrastructure, not have a leader in office who throws a bone to diversity candidates who have no idea what they're doing.
And in your pea brain, Trump will hire competent people?
I have flown several times this year with zero issues.
Yes, because he already did - Ellen Chao - whose resume included (at the time of appointment:
1) US Secretary of Labor
2) Director of Peace Corps
3) Deputy Director of Transportation
4) Chair of the US Maritime Commission
5) Director of the US Maritime Commission.
Had Biden been smart, he would have begged her to stay, rather then hire an incompetent ex-mayor whose sole experience was as a failed mayor of a small midwestern town. Of course he has failed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying within the last 3 years has been a horrific experience. Delaya, delays, and more delays. Lost baggage constant, filthy planes and airports,.....it's like the US has devolved into a 2nd world country and gives zero craps anymore about maintaining standards. Travel has just gotten so, sooooooo bad under Biden. And what does his transportation secretary Mayor Pete do? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No pressure on ailrines ever even after they got tons of taxpayer dollars to stay alive. Consumers have almost no recourse and airlines screw up and do something like lose your baggage on a direct flight. Travel in the US and from th US using American airlines is just horrific experience and yet all Biden's hiree mayor Pete does is collect paychecks and do nothing. Biden hired him because he was a diversity hire, but the end results are a disastrous decline in the quality and standards for travel to and from the US.
I've now been on 3 flights domestically within the last 3 years. 2 lost baggage on a friggin direct flight, and the other had such significant delays that it ruined a lot of lodging plans and plans at the destination causing thousands in losses. Of course it has been impossible to obtain any kind of compensation because the airlines' mistakes caused major delays. I'm so done with Biden. We need a competent leader who'll hire the best candidates to do critical jobs like running this country's transportation infrastructure, not have a leader in office who throws a bone to diversity candidates who have no idea what they're doing.
And in your pea brain, Trump will hire competent people?
I have flown several times this year with zero issues.
Anonymous wrote:+1. I'm a life long liberal progressive, but I'm going to overthrow the United States Government because Delta made me check my bag last week.
Anonymous wrote:Individual travelers' experience is anecdotes, not data. But one thing that DOES show up in the actual data is that US air travel is now at the highest and busiest it has ever been, more than pre-pandemic levels. Airlines are still struggling to catch up after the losses they incurred during the pandemic, but they are fast getting there.
Anonymous wrote:Flying within the last 3 years has been a horrific experience. Delaya, delays, and more delays. Lost baggage constant, filthy planes and airports,.....it's like the US has devolved into a 2nd world country and gives zero craps anymore about maintaining standards. Travel has just gotten so, sooooooo bad under Biden. And what does his transportation secretary Mayor Pete do? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No pressure on ailrines ever even after they got tons of taxpayer dollars to stay alive. Consumers have almost no recourse and airlines screw up and do something like lose your baggage on a direct flight. Travel in the US and from th US using American airlines is just horrific experience and yet all Biden's hiree mayor Pete does is collect paychecks and do nothing. Biden hired him because he was a diversity hire, but the end results are a disastrous decline in the quality and standards for travel to and from the US.
I've now been on 3 flights domestically within the last 3 years. 2 lost baggage on a friggin direct flight, and the other had such significant delays that it ruined a lot of lodging plans and plans at the destination causing thousands in losses. Of course it has been impossible to obtain any kind of compensation because the airlines' mistakes caused major delays. I'm so done with Biden. We need a competent leader who'll hire the best candidates to do critical jobs like running this country's transportation infrastructure, not have a leader in office who throws a bone to diversity candidates who have no idea what they're doing.
Anonymous wrote:I knew nationalizing the airlines was a mistake!