Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg invited The Washington Post on a United Airlines flight with him from Washington Dulles to Denver and ended up in a middle seat on a Boeing 777-200 in economy class. Along the way we learn of many of his in-flight preferences…and his plans to make this “the period when we did the biggest expansion in passenger rights since deregulation.”
In-Flight Commentary From Pete Buttigieg On United Airlines
A fascinating story by Hannah Sampson of the WaPo provides us with a trip report from a flight with Secretary Buttigieg from IAD-DEN on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 (UA1366).
Buttigieg hosted Sampson for a story on his plan to improve air rights for passengers, but the story is intertwined with anecdotes from his flight and his own travel preferences. Those include:
- Broken Wi-Fi (I had to laugh…that’s the #2 complaint I hear about United after the poor in-flight food and yet I’ve racked up a long streak of flights…
