Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - BONUS: O'Reilly on Rising Concerns in Air Travel

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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So I've been to Newark Airport lately. It's called Newark Liberty International Airport. You can go almost anywhere from there on United. But now the authorities are saying don't fly into Newark. It's not safe. This is from air traffic control. Not safe. And the delays are staggering.

more than an hour coming and going because according to government authorities there's not enough air traffic control and the structure at Newark is broken down this is from the FAA so if you're going out there to go somewhere it's not good. And three runways are closed for rehabilitation. Now, New York is always a problem with traveling because we have 16 million people depending on our airports and that's too many people and we don't have enough. Anything happens if it's cloudy, if there's a little wind, then you're going to get host.

I mean, that's it. Now, here's something interesting. I was brutal on Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. I was absolutely brutal on him. He never would have gotten his job had he not been gay. Okay, he was appointed because he was gay. He's the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a tiny town, which Notre Dame basically supports. And Buttigieg never did anything in his life to be appointed a cabinet secretary.

and he screwed up time after time, after time, after time. He didn't improve anything. It was just perfect Biden, right? They were all a bunch of clowns. But the delays, airport delays, are worse, or were worse, in March of this year than in March and 24. Okay? Cancel flights were worse under the transatl. Trump administration and the new transportation secretary Sean Duffy. He did a worse job than

Buttigieg. Ooh. The late fight's about the same down a little bit, but cancel flights up. Okay. Now here is the problem. When you get a system that is a system that is overburdened. And this applies not only our airports, but our roads. There are too many automobiles for the roads. And that's just a fact. And so you have bumper to bumper traffic used to be just in the rush hour. Now it's around a clock. And the system collapses under the weight of what we have. It is very difficult to combat that, but you can do it. And the solution to the airline thing is you tell the airlines,

these are the slots that you have. Okay, the federal government says this. At Atlanta Airport, Chicago Airport, New York Airport, here are your slots. You don't get any more than this. and you make sure that the takeoffs and landing, the slotting, is doable. So at 9 a.m., you can't have 70 airplanes taken off. Maybe you can have 15, and that's what you do, but there's no discipline.

Airlines just slot whatever they want. No. Now, you can't stop people from driving. But, you know, on the roads, what you can do is get the wrecks off quicker, you get more police on the roads. There are things you can do, but that I don't even know. It's beyond my capacity. So we live in a rough area if we want to get anywhere, locally or out of state or out of country. It's very tough.

And you get to the airport and you've got to wait in the line, the security. I got my real ID to get that, I don't think that's going to make a difference, but I got it. I paid for it. Okay, brutal. It is brutal. And these problems are really not being dealt with. And that just gets more people frustrated. But be very careful if you have a book.

If you've booked a flight out of Newark, be very, very careful.