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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that he would like to see healthier snack options offered on flights, as he continues to advocate for tweaks to the overall air travel process.
“I would love some better snacks,” Duff said in an interview on Tuesday with Blaze News. “I would love a little healthier snack on the airplane… Maybe that could change it all. If I didn’t get the really fattening cookie full of butter and sugar and crap, or that little snack pack of pretzels. Can we do something else?”
Speaking with Fox News, New Jersey-based dietitian Erin Palinski-Wade said that healthier options can be limited for airlines who are trying to juggle the difficulties of avoiding specific allergies and offering fresh produce.
Duffy’s comments come on the heels of the DOT’s broader public awareness campaign dubbed, “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You.” The effort hopes to instill more civility at airports and to “restore courtesy and class to air travel.”
Launched last Wednesday during the beginning of a holiday travel season that the FAA expects to be the busiest its seen in 15 years, Duffy posed a list of five questions each traveler should ask themself before preparing to fly:
- Are you helping a pregnant woman or the elderly with placing their bags in the overhead bin?
- Are you dressing with respect?
- Are you keeping control of your children and helping them through the airport?
- Are you saying thank you to your flight attendants?
- Are you saying please and thank you in general?
According to the FAA, the agency has seen a 400 percent increase in in-flight outbursts since 2019.
The civility issue was not a big deal until the silly Covid masking rules. Now the issues that Secretary Duffy brings up came along with bringing airline travel to the “masses”. The only way I see to return to travel the way it used to be would be to return to airline regulation like it was during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The increase in fares would filter out the “masses”, to those who would appreciate airline travel and dress accordingly. And then maybe the airlines would come up with better snack options. Not holding my breath on any of this actually happening!
Fighting the important fights eh lol
No sense bothering with details, when your saving the world, eh?
Don’t think that healthy snacks can overcome the stress caused by long delays or flight cancellations. If there were only an idea that airlines should pay customers money in case of such delays or cancellations. Maybe Duffy should look at that.
This is ridiculous. First of all neither the airline or any fast food enterprise is responsible for your health. You are not being force fed on the airline. If you really require health food, bring your bag of Brussels sprouts and kale chips. I’ll take the ham and eggs. They have never driven me to attack a fellow passenger or crew member.
LOL, what in the world does the government have to do with dictating what snacks are proffered on an airline flight? This, from a President who lives off of Diet Cokes and Big Macs. Are sports stadiums and dive bars on their list too?
Whatever becomes of this, it will be a disaster, which the next Administration making it into another “Healthy School Lunch” program.
If they do, then it will simply be done as a wealth transfer from passengers who weren’t delayed, funded by higher ticket prices for everyone, resulting in fewer customers able to afford to fly.
There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch in economics.
Mr. Duffy clearly thought this press release would gain support for the administration from voters that don’t do much thinking. Apparently, he thought that benefit would outweigh the signaling to those that do that his priorities for dealing with the serious challenges he faces are badly misplaced.