Tag: Pete Buttigieg
DOT fines JetBlue for ‘chronically delayed flights’
JetBlue Airways aircraft are pictured at departure gates at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on June 15, 2013.Fred Prouser | ReutersT [...]
Alaska-Hawaiian airline merger clears DOT review
Boeing 737-790 aircraft belonging to Alaska Airlines is seen flying at Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, United States [...]
Delta cancels more flights, struggles to recover from Microsoft outage
Travelers wait in line at a Delta Airlines counter at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on July 19, 2024. Airlines around the wor [...]
Flights grounded, passengers to see delays amid global IT outage
Crowds are seen building up at Suvarnabhumi Airport as a global IT disruption caused by a Microsoft outage and a Crowdstrike IT problem combine to aff [...]
Biden administration urges Congress to ban airline family-seating fees
Passengers wearing protective masks are seen aboard before a JetBlue flight to London at JFK International Airport in the Queens borough of New York C [...]
Labor unions meet with Biden officials
Pete Buttigieg, US transportation secretary, speaks during a news conference near the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, [...]
NTSB Ohio train derailment report points to overheated wheel
Workers continue to clean up remaining tank cars, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio, following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train [...]
Safe to return to East Palestine, Ohio
Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw told CNBC he thinks it's safe for families to return to East Palestine, Ohio, nearly three weeks after toxic chemicals [...]
DOT says Frontier, foreign airlines must pay travelers $600 million in refunds
Travelers look at a display board showing cancelled and delayed flights at Orlando International Airport on New Year's weekend, despite thousands of f [...]
Biden administration seeks new rules on airline fee disclosures
Travelers at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Friday, July 2, 2022. As travel is ramping up for the July 4th holiday, [...]
Airlines, FAA spar over flight delays ahead of July Fourth
Travelers wait to board a plane at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, on April 22, 2022.Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty ImagesAirlines and the F [...]
U.S. roadway deaths rise, even as cars get safer
Cars and trucks are wedged together after a deadly multi-vehicle pileup on the ice covered I-35 in a still image from video in Fort Worth, Texas, Febr [...]
Inflation is the ‘top problem’ facing America, survey shows
A worker stocks items inside a grocery store in San Francisco, California, May 2, 2022.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeanwhile, Presiden [...]
Buttigieg says DOT will dole out $2.9 billion in infrastructure grants
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks to the news media during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 8, 2 [...]

U.S. clears way for driverless vehicles without steering wheels
DETROIT – Federal vehicle safety regulators have cleared the way for the production and deployment of driverless vehicles that do not include manual c [...]