‍✈️ Axios PM: What airlines want

🥧 Happiest Thanksgiving! | Thursday, November 28, 2024

View in browser   Presented By Meta   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Nov 28, 2024 🍗 Happy Thanksgiving! Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 482 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Mickey Meece for copy editing. Axios is so grateful to this incredibly loyal PM audience. Thank you for caring about — and supporting — trustworthy, clear-eyed journalism. 🚨 Breaking: Israel says it launched an airstrike on Hezbollah today for the first time since a ceasefire took effect yesterday morning. Go deeper.     1 big thing: Airlines' Trump 2.0 wish list   Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios   Airlines hope President-elect Trump will roll back Biden-era rules that require them to quickly refund travelers for canceled or significantly delayed or canceled flights, Axios aviation expert Alex Fitzpatrick writes. Why it matters: These consumer safeguards are popular with travelers — many of whom may benefit from those rules this weekend. 🛩️ The rules are a capstone achievement for Biden's outgoing Transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who's spent the last four years framing himself as a consumer rights champion. But airline industry leaders now seem confident Trump 2.0 will be less aggressive — and friendlier to their bottom lines. ✂️ What they're saying: "We are hopeful for a [Transportation Department] that is maybe a little less aggressive in terms of regulating or rule-making," Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan said recently. Delta CEO Ed Bastian says Trump promised "to take a fresh look at the regulatory environment, the bureaucracy that exists in government, the level of overreach that we have seen over the last four years within our industry." Share this story.     2. 🍽️ Thanksgiving in America   Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Beagle Scout Snoopy (and Woodstock!) soared over the rainy 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan today. Dora the Explorer at the Macy's parade. Photo: David Dee Delgado/AFP via Getty Images The lineup included new Spider-Man and Minnie Mouse balloons, zoo and pasta-themed floats, an ode to Big Apple coffee and bagels, and performances from Jennifer Hudson, Idina Menzel and Kylie Minogue. Keep reading. Photo: Juan Carlo/Ventura County Star via USA Today Network Above: Allen Daniel enjoys a meal during the Rescue Mission Alliance's annual Thanksgiving banquet in Oxnard, Calif. 9 more parade pics.     A message from Meta Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few     Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost. The impact: When AI models are open source, they're available to all. And when AI models are available to all, everyone benefits. Learn more.     3. 🏈 Madden Cruiser cruises again   NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (left) and the late John Madden aboard Madden's bus in 2010. Photo: Rob Carr/AP 🚐 The "Madden Cruiser" — the bus Hall of Fame NFL commentator John Madden used to travel around the country for games — will get an encore before tonight's Miami-Green Bay game (8:20 p.m. ET). NBC plans to air a two-minute segment showing the Madden Cruiser traveling from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, to Lambeau Field. It'll also be featured during the game. All three of today's games will honor Madden, who died in 2021 at age 85. The NFL named its marquee slate of Thanksgiving games after him three years ago. Keep reading.     4. 🏀 New face of women's college hoops   USC guard JuJu Watkins during a game against Notre Dame last weekend. Photo: Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images University of Southern California star JuJu Watkins is taking over as the face of college basketball, Axios' Maxwell Millington writes. State Farm has signed Watkins to an NIL deal. It's the second-ever student-athlete partnership for the insurance company, the first being Caitlin Clark last fall. Tickets to see the Trojans this fall are already in high demand. See the schedule. Go deeper.     A message from Meta How open source AI helps more people build amazing things     Meta's open source AI is available to all, not just the few. Which means more people can build amazing things. Here's how: Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost. Learn more about open source AI.   🦃 Wishing you and your family an evening of football, feast & peace! Are you a fan of this email format? 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