Tag: Air Travel

House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to persuade the Trump administration not to force out HHS Secretary Tom Price. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Paul Ryan tried to persuade White House to keep Tom Price: Report

Anna Giaritelli · October 3, 2017 6:42 pm

Trump doesn't understand free enterprise well enough, or the swamp well enough to know cronyism when it comes knocking. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s corporate welfare problem

Timothy P. Carney · October 3, 2017 5:29 pm

"Under my leadership we're going to hold people accountable," Zinke said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Inspector general starts probe into Ryan Zinke’s chartered flights

John Siciliano · October 2, 2017 8:01 pm

In a move to protect Boeing, the department recently decided to impose a 220 percent import duty on Bombardier planes from Canada. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Canada is trying to give us cheaper products, but the US Commerce Department is messing it up

Tim Worstall · October 2, 2017 7:23 pm

A T-45C Goshawk lands on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. A U.S. Navy T-45 training aircraft with an instructor pilot and student on board went missing over Tennessee Sunday. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael E. Wiese/Released)

National Security

2 pilots die after Navy training plane crashes in Tennessee

Jamie McIntyre · October 2, 2017 3:21 pm

Who else loses? Air travelers, whose tickets will now cost more than they otherwise would have. Not to mention every business that those passengers would have spent their extra disposable income on, plus every firm that would have supplied the needs of the additional cabin crew who now won't exist.

The latest US move on planes is a train-wreck

Dan Hannan · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said President Trump is making sure the controversy over administration officials using private and government planes is "not going to happen again." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mick Mulvaney: Trump is making sure travel controversies will not be repeated

Naomi Lim · October 1, 2017 4:01 pm

The Treasury Department says that concerns about secure communications with government agencies is what prompted Secretary Steven Mnuchin to inquire about using a government plane for his European honeymoon in August. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Steven Mnuchin: Taking military flight to Fort Knox was ‘completely justifiable’

John Siciliano · October 1, 2017 3:45 pm

Delta Air Lines recently released an entire website dedicated to train their employees and stakeholders on why Middle Eastern carriers are a threat to the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

How US airlines are deceiving you about their foreign competitors

Frederik Roeder · September 30, 2017 4:01 am

A watchdog group asked the Interior Department's inspector general on Friday to investigate whether Secretary Ryan Zinke violated the law by chartering private planes for purposes that may represent conflicts of interest. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Watchdog asks Interior to open investigation into Ryan Zinke’s flights

John Siciliano · September 29, 2017 11:45 pm

Travel for Trump administration officials on government-owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft, will now require prior approval from White House chief of staff John Kelly. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Kelly’s approval needed for future chartered aircraft use by government officials

Diana Stancy Correll · September 29, 2017 10:58 pm

Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned on Friday, one day after he apologized for chartering hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of private flights since May. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Beltway Confidential

Tom Price should still reimburse taxpayers for those flights

Emily Jashinsky · September 29, 2017 10:35 pm