LaHood’s admonitions are the latest case of the White House facing pressure from allies and stakeholders to gain control of a metastasizing pandemic that has increasingly dominated the administration and its goals. Last week, Biden announced that he would be implementing an aggressive policy requiring federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated in addition to requiring private businesses that employ more than 100 people to vaccinate their employees or subject them to weekly testing. Absent from the announcement, however, was any policy with respect to airline travel and the possibility of requiring travelers to prove vaccination before boarding.
Industry officials have resisted such a requirement, saying it isn’t easy to implement and would require additional, costly infrastructure. And inside the White House, there are concerns that it could prove burdensome and only marginally effective in increasing vaccinations.
Among the biggest airline companies, there does not…