Road Trip-gate: Murray calls for IG probe into USDOT Secretary Duffy’s multi-million-dollar corporate-sponsored family trip

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) on Wednesday called for the Department of Transportation’s inspector general to investigate Secretary Sean Duffy’s participation in a corporate-sponsored reality YouTube series featuring his family’s cross-country road trip. Murray made the request days after a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in which she pressed Duffy on the project’s funding […]

Fifth Circuit rules ‘ongoing coercion’ by United Airlines of its vaccine mandate

United Airlines employees who are suing the airline for its COVID-19 vaccine mandate just got a second chance to make their case. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a district court judge on February 17 to reconsider after he initially denied the employees’ request to block the policy. Back in September, eight Texas-based United […]

United Airlines orders 200 more Boeing 737 MAX jets

SEATTLE Wash. June 29, 2021 – Boeing and United Airlines today announced the carrier will expand its 737 order book by purchasing an additional 200 737 MAX jets, including 150 for the largest member of the family, the 737-10, and 50 for the airplane that serves the heart of the single-aisle market, the 737-8. The […]