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What’s wrong with air travel these days? Donald Trump.
Yes, the president seems to want to make air travel as difficult as possible, and most of his recent moves are exacerbating some of America’s biggest flying problems.
Take Trump’s war on Iran. About 20% of the world’s oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which is in the south of Iran, but since Trump attacked the nation on Feb. 28, tank traffic across the strait has been reduced to a crawl. As a result, fuel prices around the world have increased, which has led to severe competition high ticket costs across major airways—another problem which is expected to worsen soon.
The high cost of an airline ticket is the No. 1 concern for Americans. 1 about flying. Nearly two-thirds of Americans (63%) say high ticket prices are a big problem, and another 17% say it’s less of a problem, according to new YouGov. choice.
The war also exacerbated another top problem with air travel: flight cancellations. It is clear that tens of thousands of Middle East flights have taken place cancelled. But even roads outside the conflict zone are being damaged. More than a week ago, United Airlines it said it would cut about 5% of its routes due to high fuel costs.
Nearly half of Americans (47%) tell YouGov that flight delays and delays are a big problem, with another 29% saying it’s less of a problem.
But even if you manage to buy a ticket and not see your flight canceled, trouble can still await in the form of long security lines — another problem that Trump has exacerbated.
As of February 14, the Department of Homeland Security has been partially shut down amid a funding battle over Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a notorious agency. separating immigrant families, to expel the childrenand to fulfill US citizens. During that shutdown, Trump had it rejected two attempts to fund the Transportation Security Administrationforcing TSA personnel to travel without pay for more than a month. Last Monday, about 11% of TSA employees he did not show up for work as planned, leading to permanent security lines across the country.
On Friday, while under pressure, Trump thankfully sign the executive order to pay TSA personnel. However, as with oil prices, long security strings cannot be fixed immediately. As of Friday, about 500 TSA officers are let go. And that comes after 1,110 left during the 43-day shutdown last year. To correct this situation, it will be necessary to hire new officers, which is a long process On average 90 days.
Forty percent of Americans say long security lines are the biggest problem with air travel, according to YouGov. Another 35% said it was less of a problem. But those parts can grow as the lines grow.
What’s more, 63% of Americans, including a majority of every political party, find the hassles at the airport very or somewhat stressful, according to a new YouGov. data. And only 22% support for temporarily closing airports to increase staffing at major airports, a plan that the Trump administration has championed. floating.
In an apparent move to speed up security calls, the Trump administration sent ICE agents to at least 14 airports last Monday. The problem is, those agents they have not helped in security reviewslike shipping X-rays, because they they are not trained to do that. Instead, they have been doing little crowd control or wandering around around the courts.
In the first instance, the initial data suggests that the deployment was not immediately popular.
It’s new choice from YouGov shows close support for ICE at the airport, with 43% of Americans supporting it and 41% opposing it. However, support may be less than it first appears.
For example, the survey says ICE agents will “assist” TSA officers, which survey respondents may mistakenly describe as agents conducting security checks. Furthermore, the current level of support is largely driven by Republicans, 80% of whom support deportation. Meanwhile, smaller shares of Democrats (15%) and independents (31%) feel the same way. In fact, more independents oppose (44%) than favor.
Moreover, the deployment could backfire on Trump for two reasons.
First, Trump’s tax law from last summer ensures that his ICE gestapo is is being paid even if DHS is closed. It’s easy to see how that would be an insult to TSA officers who have gone weeks without pay, and how much it would have encouraged them to quit or miss work.
Second, this deployment will be the first time many Americans have seen ICE agents up close sometimes covered— and that may not go well. Only 33% of Americans have a favorable view of ICE officers, according to new PRRI choice. That includes just 6% of Democrats, 26% of independents, and less than 3 in 4 Republicans (73%).
Seeing ICE agents in the flesh may do it for some people, but it may, if not, worsen public perception of them.
The deployment also comes shortly after another high-profile accident involving a jet. Last Sunday, an Air Canada flight bump into each other in an airport car at LaGuardia Airport, New York City, killing two pilots and injuring several passengers. A preliminary report says there appear to be staffing problems at the airport’s air traffic control center. somehow to blame. And the shortage of air traffic control workers is considered a major problem by 50% of Americans, according to YouGov.
Although airplanes are still a safe way to travel, these high-profile incidents raised fears. For example, last January’s fatal crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport made Americans afraid to fly, according to data from YouGov. A few weeks before the crash, 50% of Americans were “not at all afraid” of flying, but about two weeks after the crash, that share had fallen to 43%.
Although the public’s fear of flying has decreased since then, Americans remain very concerned about safety during flights, with a third (34%) considering insecurity on airplanes to be a major problem.
From problems with air travel to high gas prices and outbreak of measleseveryday life it seems demeaning before our eyes. That creates a lot of public anger at the current administration—and the current administration. And that’s a problem for Republicans in the midterms.
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Trump’s approval rating is at nosediveand there is no doubt that it is because of his war in Iran and all the negative effects it has on the price of gas and air travel. The battle begins without public supportbut the little it had may already be wasted.
Fifty-nine percent of Americans say U.S. military actions in Iran are “too extreme,” according to a new choice from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That includes 90% of Democrats, 63% of independents, and even 1 in 4 Republicans.
Majority or majority oppose almost every step of the military operation, too. But the most unpopular thing is the idea of putting down the boots to fight in Iran. 62 percent oppose the potential action, and 12%—just 12%!—support it.
This isn’t the only election with bad data for Trump. Others found that only 1 in 3 people think war is coming make the world safeand that the majority of Americans (54%) want the US to use military force frequently.
No wonder Trump looking for the eject button.
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