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Shortages are part of this. the good news is this doesnt affect safety. this is the reason. they are making sure everything is safe. they keeping spaces between planes and making sure every one is rested enough. that creates a will the of delays but it does guarantee safety. thats the good news here. >> there might be people watching us today that maybe havent ventured out since the pandemic started maybe more than two years ago. there just arent people that fly allot. whats your advice for some...

Youll get alerts often before the airlines will even alert you flight aware will know because they power over half of all estimated time of arrivals in the u.s. and it is such a great tool for people that need to pick you up at the airport or you need to thick people up. it will send you alerts via text or email and there is even a great function that said where is my plane. so if youre sitting at the gate if denver, wondering when your flight to seattle is going to leave because you dont see a ...

Recommit ourselves to having the courage to take action. that was us vice president kamala harris speaking a little earlier saying that enough is enough, addressing a roomful of american lawmakers and talking about how important it is now two move forward with gun reforms. we can speak now to former fbi special agent tracy walder, i want to add as well that tracy is also a mother whose child is currently attending elementary school in texas and she joins us now from dallas. tracy, in the first i...

You have a right to ask for couch. if they say theyre going to put you on another flight, you can also still decline and get your money back. that is your right. if you choose to be rebooked and you are already at the airport, heres a pro tip. do your own research. a busy gate agent may not be looking at all the options and i can promise you this, you yelling at them is not going to help. there could be another airport you can fly into, a connection that you could possibly use, some airlines wil...

Fairly moderate to major blizzard. >> the very thin comfort that comes from realizing that it could be worse. but let me ask you this, if folks find out their flight has been canceled and they are stuck at the airport during a pandemic, what should they do? from a health standpoint as well as a practical standpoint. stick around, sleep on the floor or get out of dodge and wait to fly another day? >> you know, it really depends just on what flight they can get on. a lot of the time, you know, bes...

Carrier. you must notify the carrier. thats federal law. >> so, thats interesting. >> yeah. you can transport -- >> are you supposed to be asked if you have anything -- i dont recall -- i think its mostly because i take carryon luggage but i do travel a lot. when youre checking luggage, are you always asked if you have any firearms? is that something a gate agent has to ask you when youre checking your luggage? >> well, the onus is really on the person carrying the firearm. but often, the ticket...

The atomic sunshine state. his administration working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement. we are looking into a recent incident at orlando international airport where a family of four says it was refused boarding for a flight because their artistic 4-year-old son cannot cover his face with a mask. this had happened despite them having a doctors note and say was submitted to frontier airlines beforehand. thats with a doctors note said. but the airlines website said that is not enough percent...

Folks on the airplanes and folks talking at the counters are vaccinated a in the point? >> we had a real increase because our deadline is now september 27th and our management ranks are 95% vaccinated and almost 90% of the whole company is fully vaccinated. >> so september 27th is the deadline to be fully vaccinated. which means youre waiting for it to kick in. you need to have gotten the shots already, right? >> right. >> and then if you have an exemption, what happens there? its delayed this r...

Theres some you can read and tell this is not real. so, weve denied some. but most of them were accepting. what we said to employees, if youre a gate agent, for example, youre not going to be able to come to work until covid is over and the accommodation is, youre going to keep your job, get to come back, keep your seniority -- >> but you pay them in the meantime. >> its unpaid, no. >> thats key. lets talk what i like to call im sure you dont call them this jerks on plaens. we have seen a lots o...

Rejected" thats just what they are saying in public. the show has been told in 2019 just a couple of years ago the trump administration approach the policy experts at heritage and asked them to support and public an effort to stop the abuses by big tech, but heritage refused and rebuff the administration. they explained the free market would solve the problem. build your own google. what they did not say is that the free market in this case involved getting in $1.6 million from the tech companie...