Here we go again. Congress is trying to pass yet another Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, a rare opportunity to help airline passengers by enacting meaningful consumer protections.
You could almost hear a collective groan from the traveling public last week when United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz promised a congressional hearing that his airline would “do better” in the wake of the David Dao dragging incident.
Better than what, exactly?
Donald Lessard did a double take when he saw the name on his airline ticket: “Donald Jeffries.”
Will the real airfare transparency bill please stand up? Passengers may be forgiven for asking that question last week.
“I shudder to think about what’s going to happen on planes if cellphones are allowed,” says Marchadie, a programmer from Jacksonville, Fla. “What a nightmare — except, of course, to those people who live on their cellphones and force those within hearing distance to listen to their mindless drivel.”
She may not have to worry.
The TSA is doomed. You’ll have to at least agree that the agency as we know can’t continue to exist as it does.
You don’t have to read the 59-page congressional report on the Transportation Security Administration’s shortcomings, released on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, to conclude the agency has “become its own worst enemy.”
To the hundreds of thousands of air travelers who are inconvenienced by their invasive and allegedly unconstitutional screening procedures, the Transportation Security Administration may be nothing to laugh about.
