Hopefully you're not dealing with the chaos of what has happened with the airlines mayor Pete

Just made it known first of all they found mayor Pete. This is exciting in itself. He's on him attorney leave right now

He's actually playing dress up with wolf blitzer on CNN. He's now come out and said

On southwest airlines chaos quote this is an unacceptable situation their system really has

Completely quote unquote melted down

So if you want to know who to blame it's the private sector not the transportation secretary are the by

Demonstration not at all listen to this I understand you just spoke directly with the CEO of southwest

Airlines did you get any explanation at all for this horrendous meltdown of epic proportions?

Well meltdown is the right word this is an unacceptable situation you look at the number of passengers who are stranded

You look at how hard it is even to get somebody on the phone to address it from what I can tell southwest is unable to locate

Even where their own crews are let alone their own passengers let alone baggage

So I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers into address this

They indicated a number of issues that they're having with systems

Legacy systems for managing their their schedule and where their crews are but the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system

Has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into Friday of last week as it today as I'm looking at the different airlines

Most of them are in the low single digits in terms of cancellation rates

Avering averaging about 5% for all of the other airlines for southwest right now

We appear to be north of 70% so their system really has completely meltdown and I've made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their

Responsibilities to customers both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can't happen again

Yeah, I love this right we're gonna hold them accountable. Okay, so the federal government

You guys can't even secure a border

Right you can't even figure out how to deal with power issues in our power grid in this country

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