Airline Passenger Experience the subcommittee heard from representatives from the Government Accountability office, Consumer Reports, paralyzed veterans of america, the airline Passenger Experience association and Spirit Airlines. The subcommittee will come to order. I would ask unanimous consent ththe chair bethe chair be autho declare recess during todays hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask nms can send members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection, so ordered. Good morning and i want to thank the witnesses for joining the subcommittee today for the discussion on the air travel experience. According to the u. S. The bureau of transportation statistics in 2018 u. S. Airlines. 925 million passengers to destinations in the u. S. And abroad, the highest total is 2003. The federal aviation or the faa current forecast predicts it will increase roughly 2 per year over the next 20 years and the number
Ththe chair bethe chair be autho declare recess during todays hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask nms can send members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection, so ordered. Good morning and i want to thank the witnesses for joining the subcommittee today for the discussion on the air travel experience. According to the u. S. The bureau of transportation statistics in 2018 u. S. Airlines. 925 million passengers to destinations in the u. S. And abroad, the highest total is 2003. The federal aviation or the faa current forecast predicts it will increase roughly 2 per year over the next 20 years and the number of passenger is expected to grow from 24 million to 56 million by 2050. So while increased passenger demand for its new Economic Opportunities and enhances the nations aviation network, longstanding challenges can enter. Over the last few years coming u. S. Airlines invested i interen their produ
Security forces are searching for illegal weapons. They are trying to stop violence in the wake of the controversial decision to run for a third term. Rocks a world of athletics as allegations say officials tried to extort money from athletes who failed drug tests. Up, in paris is three weeks away. We will look at a tiny island in senegal. Residents are living on the front line of climate change. Inuitar is auctioned off beverly hills. We will tell you for how much in business. First, our top stories. The first results in the historic election are starting to come in. Has one 15 led out of 16 seats. Even with a landslide for the party, the military is still guaranteed a quarter of the seats in parliament. The Opposition Party is on track to win 70 of the available seats, giving it the majority it would need to take power. The first results were announced on monday afternoon. He praised the way the vote has been run. The election was peaceful. It can be see in that it was held peacefull
Stronger dollar and slowing Economic Growth overseas. Foreign ministers are said to meet in germany for a fourway summit on russia and peace talks aimed at ending military talks Angela Merkel is warning a lack of progress from russia. And the ruble dropping today. Well show you now. And millions of french citizens taking part in an historic march this weekend to pay tribute to victims of islamist militant attacks. A line of World Leaders lead the way. Arms link. Among them israeli Prime Minister and the palestinian president all together. No high ranking u. S. Officials took part. That lead to a lot of criticism. Well have a live report from paris. You saw here covered on the daily news this morning. Sunday more than 40 leaders watched none of the men showed up. The news said you let the world down. So there it is. Some people say eric holder, by the way, was in paris and didnt go to this. I dont know what that says about i dont know. I saw some stuff on some of the websites that said
Eric talked about students switching majors and taking a long time as the cause of increasing student that when we visited and eight as pt of our heres a bit of what he had to say. But if you dig a little bit deeper, you see that there are really two problems that i think have an enormous impact. One of those is that we have too many students going into years five and six. And going years five and six borrowing money to do it. So they are not completing as fast as they can. A large number of them are students that are not as well off financially and what they end up doing is creating a cycle of working too many hours taking fewer classes perhaps not doing quite as well as their talent would allow because they are working. And then they go forward and take more time to graduate. Some of them give up. This is the group of people for which i believe we have too many people that dont complete. And then in years five and six they are borrowing more money because that is what it takes to get