You can take former Secretary Pete Buttigieg out of the Department of Transportation (DOT), but you can’t take the DOT out of Secretary Pete.

This is what one might say about Buttigieg’s latest video, posted to social media, reminding travelers of their rights, just as air travel picked up for the holiday season.

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“In my last job, around this time of year, I would often hold a press conference to remind passengers of their rights and to remind airlines that we would be enforcing those rights,” he said, explaining that those rights have been somewhat diminished in the past year because of the new presidential administration.

“But you still have rights, including the right to an automatic refund that we fought to get enshrined into law,” he continued, referring to how the Biden administration was able to make rules that require airlines to issue automatic refunds for significantly delayed or canceled flights.

Buttigieg then pointed travelers to flightrights.gov – saying that “the last time I checked” it was still “a good source of information,” unlike other informative government websites the new administration has taken down – for more information about their rights while traveling by air.