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    Travelers look at a flight information display listing canceled and delayed flights

    'Open Admission of Fraud': United CEO Says Airlines Are Scheduling Flights They Can't Fulfill

    Facing criticism over recent air travel issues, the U.S. Transportation Department is reportedly investigating whether three airlines have scheduled flights they know they can't staff.

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 20, 2023

    Three unidentified U.S. airlines are under federal investigation for potentially scheduling flights the companies know they ultimately will not be able to fly—a revelation The New York Times reported Friday, just two days after United Airlines' CEO suggested competitors are doing just that.

    The Times focused largely on how air travel issues—including mass cancellations from a winter storm during the holidays last month and a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system outage that grounded air traffic across the country last week—have put Pete Buttigieg, the head of the U.S. Department of Transporation (DOT), "in the hot seat."

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    Canceled Southwest Airlines flights appear on the monitors at LAX

    'They Are Just Mocking Pete Buttigieg': Southwest Promotes Executives After Historic Meltdown

    "That's the behavior of a company with no intention of changing course from management decisions that seek to enrich shareholders while leaving consumers holding the bag."

    Jake Johnson
    Jan 11, 2023

    After canceling nearly 17,000 flights around the Christmas holiday—the worst customer service meltdown in the history of the U.S. airline industry—Southwest announced this week that it is promoting several of its executives, a move that watchdogs decried as a slap in the face of the travelers impacted by the company's incompetence and greed.

    In a press release, Southwest said it is elevating five executives across different departments at the company, including network operations control and communications. The announcement came just over a week after the Southwest pilots' union published a scathing letter calling the corporation's management a "headquarters-centric cult" that has "eroded our company from within."

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    U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies at a congressional hearing

    'He's Failed to Take Real Action': Buttigieg Under Fire for Handling of Airline Debacle

    "Secretary Buttigieg has spent months appearing to regulate rather than actually regulating," said one expert.

    Jake Johnson
    Dec 30, 2022

    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is facing growing backlash from members of Congress and corporate watchdogs who say his department failed to take sufficient action in the lead-up to mass flight cancellations surrounding the Christmas holiday, a meltdown that has its roots in decades of airline consolidation, greed, and lax oversight.

    On Thursday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) took to Twitter to argue that "this mess with Southwest could have been avoided," singling out the airline responsible for the overwhelming majority of recent flight cancellations in the United States.

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