Thanksgiving Traveling

For Thanksgiving, the President came up with a new plan to try to improve the hectic travel situation. More people fly on the days around Thanksgiving than any other days of the year, and as a result there are usually very bad delays. The President decided to do something about it and worked together with the FAA and the airports to increase personnel and machines to try to keep things running on time. They also discovered that most of the delays were originating in airports in New York, so they focused special attention there. The last part of the plan included canceling all military flights on the east coast so that there would be less congestion for the commercial flights.



Some democrats said that this plan was better than nothing, but that it was too little too late and that we needed to redo the entire system. I think that it was a very good idea, and I think that it will definitely help over the holidays. The thing that I don’t understand is why the President would announce that there will not be any military flights over the entire east coast for almost a week. I know that if something bad happens they can always get ready and take off, and this announcement was made right before it happened so there wasn’t time for anyone to do anything bad, but what about next year? I think that the public deserves to know the truth, but for things like this I don’t think it’s necessary. As long as their flights are on time, I don’t think people really care how it happens. While I do think that it might be a good idea to remove the military flights to gives the airlines more room, I think that the government should have just done it and not said anything. This brings up the issue of the honesty policy the government holds. There are many things being withheld and I honestly believe that something like this has enough reason to be withheld.

President's Speech