{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/terrible-experience-hawley-exposes-airline-execs-for-unfair-fees-passenger-harassment/", "\u2018Terrible Experience\u2019: Hawley Exposes Airline Execs for Unfair Fees, Passenger Harassment", "2024-12-04", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) confronted executives of America\u2019s major airlines today for charging billions in nonsensical fees and harassing passengers who have already paid for their flights.\n\n\u201cYou guys do appreciate that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don\u2019t you?\u201d Senator Hawley remarked. \u201cFlying on your airlines is horrible. It\u2019s terrible experience.\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley specifically called out the corporate greed of Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines for charging customers radically different prices for bags.\n\n\u201d . . . You made clear that money is your bottom line\u2014I get that. But, why is it that you\u2019re charging some people, what, triple, quadruple the amount [for luggage]?\u201d Senator Hawley asked.\n\nSenator Hawley continued to press Spirit and Frontier\u2019s executives on the \u201cbounties\u201d they have historically paid gate agents to enforce carry-on bag policies and penalize passengers\u2014including kicking customers off of flights.\n\nSenator Hawley previously questioned former Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun in June, pointing out his prioritizing of profit over safety, transparency, and quality.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/terrible-experience-hawley-exposes-airline-execs-for-unfair-fees-passenger-harassment/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0308078490197659, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}