“Airlines should compete with one another to secure passengers’ business—not to see who can charge the most in surprise fees,” US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.

That makes sense, until you see airlines pulling out huge profits then using our subsidies to operate while whining air travel is not a good business

Thanks, President Biden!

In the USA* (in civil countries it has been that way for decades)

I’m sure they’ll take this lying down.

It’s unlikely that this will set up perverse incentives to sacrifice safety for the bottom line, right?

But don’t worry, they are stil allowed to make your life and the life of coming generation more and more difficult #climatechange without having to do anything about it (except pretend r&d about “biofuels” and “electric planes” to look cool).

Edit: fixed typo and clarified