President Bush: Passenger Strandings ‘Just Not Right’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.27.07 | 6:45 PM ET
The issue of airline passenger strandings now has the attention of the White House. According to the AP, President George W. Bush said today that “endless hours sitting in an airplane on a runway with no communication between a pilot and the airport is just not right,” and he asked Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to meet with airlines to try to solve the problem.
President Bush also urged Congress to consider legislation to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration.
It’s only taken seven months from the infamous JetBlue incident at JFK to get to this point. Now that the legislative and executive branches are on the record with their desire to help passengers, let’s hope it doesn’t take so long to actually solve the problems.
Related on World Hum:
* DOT Inspector General Urges Airlines, Airports to Fight ‘Strandings’
* Audio slide show: Stranded at the National Mall
* Kate Hanni: ‘The Ralph Nader of the Skies’
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
