“Airlines should compete with one another to secure passengers’ business—not to see who can charge the most in surprise fees,” US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.
That makes sense, until you see airlines pulling out huge profits then using our subsidies to operate while whining air travel is not a good business
Which airline is making huge profit? I can’t find even one that isn’t breaking even ± 1 or 2 percent.
AA is the biggest, but makes no profit. Delta makes a small profit compared to their revenue.
Thanks, President Biden!
I’m sure they’ll take this lying down.
Then compensate for that when it happens instead of vigorously defending the status quo :)
It’s unlikely that this will set up perverse incentives to sacrifice safety for the bottom line, right?
They already do that… so nothing is lost
You mean like Boeing has been doing for the past 20 years?
In the USA* (in civil countries it has been that way for decades)
But don’t worry, they are stil allowed to make your life and the life of comibg generation more and more difficult without having to do anything (except pretend r&d about “biofuels” and “electric planes” to look cool).
