Former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu on airline prices and regulation
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[0:00] Welcome back to the takeout. Fuel costs
[0:02] continuing to increase put pressure
[0:04] upwardly on the price of airfares.
[0:06] JetBlue United Southwest all have
[0:08] recently announced at least a $10
[0:10] increase to some domestic flights. This
[0:11] according to reporting from Reuters.
[0:14] Compared to last year, airfares up more
[0:15] than 22%. Former New Hampshire
[0:17] Republican Governor Chris Cenounu here
[0:19] with me to discuss that and a whole lot
[0:21] more. He's president of Airlines for
[0:22] America. Chris, always good to see you.
[0:23] Thanks for being here.
[0:24] >> We'll get to uh the airlines in a
[0:26] second, but you recently said, let me
[0:28] get this right. Okay, I want to read it
[0:30] correctly. Quote, "Look, if people
[0:32] thought they were voting for me, my
[0:35] brother would be up by 30 points."
[0:38] That's what you said about Brother John.
[0:40] >> Well, they were questioning whether they
[0:42] said, "Well, aren't people going to be
[0:43] confused?" And I said, "No, no, look, as
[0:45] a governor, I was in their living rooms
[0:47] for eight years. We ran we managed the
[0:49] >> And John's been out of it for a little
[0:50] bit."
[0:50] >> Yeah. Yeah. For for quite a while. He's
[0:52] he's running a very different race, an
[0:53] independent race. So, no, I I that's
[0:54] just a comment that basically says, uh,
[0:56] yeah,