How does pelosi fly

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Facebook Twitter Email. Fact check: False claim that Pelosi travels weekly on seat Boeing airplane. Show Caption. Rumors then emerged that Pelosi regularly flew home on a jet the size of a Boeing , a medium range airliner that had a range of about 3, nautical miles -- more than enough to reach California -- and carried up to passengers.

In FactCheck. The C has around 50 seats, not as claimed in the posts. Snopes debunked the claim again in but it kept circulating. PolitiFact said it was false in June and quoted a Pelosi spokesperson as saying that, although she had access to military transport due to security protocols in her first years as speaker, she had been flying commercially after that. Reports like this one, saying Pelosi routinely flies about in her own size jet, have been floating around for almost two years.

But the rumors are incorrect. Spokespeople for Pelosi and Andrews Air Force Base say that the speaker has used the big Air Force jet once, but she normally uses a much smaller plane, the same one used by the previous speaker of the House, Republican Dennis Hastert. The spread of this rumor — and its first debunking — dates back to February At that time, the speaker of the House had had access to an Air Force craft for about five and a half years.

Hastert had been issued a plane after Sept. When Pelosi became speaker, House Sergeant at Arms Bill Livingood, according to his own account , worried that the small craft would be unable to travel to her home district of San Francisco without stopping to refuel. Livingood, who was first elected by a Newt Gingrich-led House in , asked the Air Force and the Department of Defense about getting a bigger plane. He also requested clarifications of other rules regarding the aircraft — for instance, whether family members would be allowed to accompany Pelosi on her flights.

Herb McConnell of the Air Force said that the CB is sometimes able to make cross-country flights without refueling, but that it depends on headwinds.