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Pete Buttigieg investigates 4 biggest airlines for “unfair or deceptive” rewards programs
“Our goal is to ensure consumers are getting the value that was promised to them,” Buttigieg said.
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Pete Buttigieg’s popularity is making him a target from both the right & the left
The recent air travel woes have given Republicans and progressives a chance to try to tarnish the image of the Transportation Secretary.
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Pete Buttigieg forces airlines to pay $600M in refunds to customers after “unprecedented” complaints
Airlines weren’t giving refunds fast enough after years of cancellations due to COVID and staff shortages. So Secretary Pete stepped in.
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Virgin Atlantic removes gendered uniform policy and will now let employees wear pronoun badges
Pronoun badges will also be available to customers.
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Pete Buttigieg threatens action against airlines after thousands of flight cancellations
“We are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering.”
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Now the religious right is claiming the COVID vaccine will cause planes to fall out of the sky
Staver claims that COVID-19 vaccines have caused “tens of thousands of deaths” as well as brain damage, miscarriages and infertility. None of it is true.
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Pete Buttigieg condemns anti-maskers who attack transportation employees
“It is absolutely unacceptable to ever mistreat a transportation worker,” Pete Buttigieg said while discussing the 1900 incidents of anti-mask mandate violence this year alone.
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Delta Air Lines to assist gay employees with health care taxes
Delta Air Lines became the first major air carrier Thursday to make same-sex domestic partners whole for additional income taxes they owe for health care plans.
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Director of gay pilots association killed in single-engine plane crash
BOULDER, Colo. — The Executive Director of the National Gay Pilots Association was killed Monday when the single-engine plane he was flying crashed and burst into flames after taking off from Boulder Municipal Airport. Steven Moore, 35, was killed in the crash, according to a statement by the pilots groups. He was flying the plane…
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World-renowned AIDS researchers, activists perish in downed Malaysian jet
SYDNEY — Several passengers on board a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine were heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia, officials said Friday. “A number of people” on board the Boeing 777 were en route to the southern Australian city of Melbourne to attend the 20th International AIDS conference, which starts Sunday…
