Fasten Your Seat Belts
Our October cover story was a deep dive into the issues that plagued meeting planners and their traveling attendees this summer: delays, cancellations and other issues that made even quick flights a challenge.
In an exclusive interview for the piece William J. McGee, senior fellow for aviation, American Economic Liberties Project, told us that Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was not doing everything he could to quell the chaos. “[Buttigieg] has greater authority than he is using both on the issue of fighting for consumer refunds and flight cancellations. We’ve never seen a summer like this one in terms of sheer number of delays and cancellations,” McGee said.