Transportation Secretary Civility Campaign

Ahead of the holiday season, Transportation Secretary Duffy has announced a civility campaign. Fox News Radio's Tonya J. Powers joins us to discuss what that means. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to the latest on Secretary Duffy launching a
civility campaign. We talked about upgrades to the FAA. Tany
j Powers on that story in New York City this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, Tanyaly ducks and jeeps, what's happened? Well, you know what,
I'll look it up.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's a jeep thing. There's a peace sign. I was
into that, but now they're throwing little rubber ducks back
and forth. But speaking of and that's a friendly thing,
by the way.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Good.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Passenger incidents are surging. They're up some four hundred percent,
and the Transportation Secretary wants to do something about it.
I think we've all seen somebody go nutty on a
plane or in an airport, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Probably. I mean we're lucky if it's been somebody else,
because it is it is extremely frustrating and stressful to
fly most of most of the time. I mean, this
can make it. It is so stressful that even the
nicest people can just like, you know, get really get

(01:06):
really chippy about the whole thing, because it is it
is difficult to keep your cool if you've been traveling
for you know, twelve hours you've dealt with delays, you've
dealt with you know, other unruly passengers. You've I mean,
there's no telling what the other person has been going through.
Always always kind of extensive kindness because you don't know
what kind of you don't know, we're going to craft
that they're dealing with as well. But Transportation Secretary Duffy

(01:30):
is basically saying, hey, you know, everybody kind of chill
uh if we can, uh, you know what happens to
you if you're like nice to the gate agency, a
gate agent, and you know, behave well on a plane,
maybe we could you know, do that. He's he's launching
this civility campaign focused to the you know, the airline

(01:50):
industry too, in an aim to inspire a return to
decorum and politeness while addressing this you know, record surge
as you've just mentioned, and on really passengers. I thought
that that number was a typo. By the way, when
I saw this four hundred percent increase in in flight
disturbances since twenty nineteen from the FAA, I thought that
was I'm like, no, surely that means forty, No, four hundred,

(02:13):
that's just that's just crazy. It's hardy at your head around,
you know.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
In what I'm looking at on Fox Business, he's asking
people to say, are you helping a pregnant woman or
an elderly person getting your bags in the overhead bin?
Are you dressing with respect? Is something that's kind of
interesting too. Outside of people wearing pajamas now, which I see,
we've had incidences of people in various forms of undress

(02:40):
as well, and I guess that puts people on edge.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean, that's that's called lounge ware, first of all, gotcha,
I mean some of it is. I mean, yeah, I
get I get why people want to be comfortable when
they travel, because everything else is uncomfortable when you travel,
unless you're sitting in first class, which just by sheer

(03:04):
numbers alone the majority of his aren't. You know, you're
dealing with little, tiny seats that have been packed in
so closely to you and the person next to you
and the person in front of you. I get why
you'd want to just be comfortable because that's like the
only comfort you're probably going to experience during your travel day,
just because of the you know, the rules and everything

(03:26):
surrounding air travels now. So I completely get the sweatpants
absolutely I understand that he is also saying, you know that,
you know what about you know the Are you saying
thank you to your slight attendants? Are you saying please
and thank you in general? Are you keeping control of
your kids? Are you helping them get through security? You know,
all of those things. Are are definitely you know, a

(03:49):
an aim at civility for certain.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
There's an awful lot of people about to take to
the airwaves in the next week. Yeah, oh, don't get
me started on kids and families. Tanya J. Powers Fox
News read you in New York this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, we don't sound like a couple of old guys
at all, exactly