Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press conference Wednesday that “high-volume” airports will begin to see traffic cuts on Friday, with air traffic declining by 10 percent by next week.
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Unlike the targeting of blue-state infrastructure projects, there’s no feasible way for the government to own the libs via the manipulation of airport traffic. Democrats and Republicans both take commercial flights . . …
The airlines should band together and cancel literally every possible route that is regularly taken by US congresscritters before they cancel anything else
They won’t, because those congresscritters actually pay for the expensive business/first class tickets (from YOUR money), whereas the average people are stuck flying economy, which is simply just isn’t worth running in such cases.
I can virtually guarantee you that they largely just get complimentary upgraded to first as a safety precaution rather than paying booking rates for first class flights. I valeted a car for a sitting senator not long ago and the dude rented with SIXT, which is a budget grade rental place that the average person isnt even familiar with
I can guarantee you that is not the case.
There is no safety premium for first class anyway, but while they may get a gov rate, they are not banking on an upgrade. Especially into and out of DC. Airlines don’t have a ton of first class inventory going spare in that market.