Flying somewhere tonight? Maybe not the way things are going (or not going)...

 Beware the wrath of the Mighty Petey B... 

What's he gonna do - smack 'em with the baby's rattle?

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg - who's done such a bang-up fuckin' job solving all kinds of transportation and supply-chain issues since he came back from paternity leave - told airline executives to 'clean up their act' and avoid another flying catastrophe before July 4 as a record number of flights were canceled across the US for a second day in a row. 

On Friday, as of 11am, more than 1,000 flights across the US have been canceled and more than 2,300 have been delayed. LaGuardia is the second highest in the US for cancelations today, with 98 flights, with Charlotte Douglas Airport leading the pack with 113 cancelations. Newark Libery in New Jersey and Washington DC's Reagan Washington National also had a high number of sudden cancelations, which have frustrated passengers. An American Airlines spokesperson told USA Today that the majority of cancelation were 'weather-related.' 

Buttigieg, alongside millions of other travelers, are tired of what feels like constant cancelations without so much as an apology from the airlines. The father-of-two has given airlines executives a short two-week period to clean up the mess and guarantee travelers can enjoy a patriotic weekend and summer without the airport stress. 

 

'At the end of the day, they got to deliver,' Buttigieg told the Today Show. The Democrat met with top airlines executives on Thursday to warn them to avoid the Memorial Day disaster, where 2,700 flights were canceled. 

Airlines received millions in pandemic aid and Buttigieg believes it's about time taxpayers' money go to good use. 

'A lot of taxpayer funding went to the aviation sector to keep these airlines up and running. And now the demand is coming back. It's no small challenge to get it up and running, but I have high expectations that airlines will be able to meet that challenge,' he told the Today Show. 

Part of his expectation is that airlines stick to the published schedule, meaning if the flight is available to purchase tickets for, travelers should be guaranteed to be up in the air.

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