The communications teams at Southwest Airlines are struggling to hide the cause of thousands of cancelled flights this weekend and are blaming Air Traffic Control and weather issues for the issues [Tweet Link]. However, customers are calling out Southwest for their nonsense, as everyone knows large numbers of Southwest pilots are not showing up to work in protest over the vaccine mandate.
People stranded in airports, and people working in airports, are responding on social media with the truth; but Southwest Airlines is not willing to admit the push back from the pilots is the real cause. The issue has become exhibit-A in the propaganda war currently raging.
Southwest issue as explained via NBC: “Southwest Airlines cancelled more than 1,000 flights, 27% of its schedule, on Sunday as disruptions that the airline blamed on air traffic control issues and bad weather affected the travel plans of thousands of customers.
“We experienced significant impact in the Florida airports [Friday] evening after an FAA-imposed air traffic management program was implemented due to weather and resulted in a large number of cancellations,” Alan Kasher, who oversees daily flight operations, told staff in a note on Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees air traffic, didn’t immediately comment. Southwest apologized to travelers for long customer service waits.” (link)
24 hours earlier, Bloomberg News highlighted the real issue: “Southwest Airlines Co. pilots asked a court to temporarily block the company from carrying out federally mandated coronavirus vaccinations until an existing lawsuit over alleged U.S. labor law violations is resolved.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association’s filing Friday also asked for an immediate hearing on the request before a federal court in Dallas, claiming the carrier has continued to take unilateral actions that violate terms of the Railway Labor Act, which governs airline-union relations. Those steps include the Covid-19 vaccination requirement. (link)
“Never mind the thousands of canceled flights, SW Airlines went from 60% “vaccinated” to 100% “vaccinated”.
President Turnip Brain Biden
Oct 2021
And 50% of flights cancelled.
And this weekend was only 25%.
Maybe having their lives disrupted will get more Americans to stand up against these ridiculous mandates.
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“We experienced significant impact in the Florida airports [Friday] evening after an FAA-imposed air traffic management program was implemented due to weather and resulted in a large number of cancellations,” Alan Kasher, who oversees daily flight operations, told staff in a note on Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees air traffic, didn’t immediately comment. Southwest apologized to travelers for long customer service waits.”
O wow I get it!
After all these years I understand politispeak!
“Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?”
Stay with me I am on to something.
The Communists, and the CIA, know lying isn’t illegal when one owns the judicial system so they lie freely and often!
please everyone that is flying page “lets go brandon” at your destination lets make it a movement
I saw a post that said SWA said they had to enforce the jab because they have government contracts (fly troops and mail) so if they don’t enforce they lose their government contract.
So in reality the government is blackmailing (do this or else) American companies to coerce and force their employees to take the jab.
I can’t believe there hasn’t been a single company sue the government over this blackmail technique.
pure evil.
pure fascism
The truth about the contract issue is at Alex Berenson substack – per SWA employee, only 3% of current contracts are govt.
Looks like the email he got is posted upthread. The real reason they are caving on mandate is they got billions in taxpayer money for covid and can’t say no to govt pressure now.
All the corporations that took the covid bucks have been bought off.
Exactly. If they took covid money and now say no, I suspect they would have to give back the covid money, + interest and penalties.
When will people learn the there is on such thing as FREE government money???
As MLK said in his letter from a Birmingham jail, you must “peacefully disrupt.” If an airline suddenly finds that 27% or more of its scheduled flights won’t fly, it could be bankrupt in a month and its CEO won’t last the week. Its lawyers will quickly confirm that there is no lawful mandate at all to coerce anyone to take an experimental potion without their voluntary informed consent.
Looks like the pressure is starting to work.
Not that I think Mayor Pete can convince Sleepy Joe to rethink the mandates, but a few weeks of all of this laid at the feet of the dems might.
Pete doesnt have the balls …to talk to bIDEN
Good News – After terminating 25% of our workforce we are at 100% of our Company is jabbed
Bad News – is we are now bankrupt!
I just read a post by someone that attached a tweet from Jack Prosobic. That tweet said this is just started. Additional airlines’ employees to join in
The unvaxxed pilots have been told they are about to lose their jobs. Why WOULDN’T they call in sick? They are probably too upset to fly, anyway. Wouldn’t anyone be? Not safe. They are doing the professional thing. A safe pilot knows when they are too upset to fly.
For the airlines that are threatening to fire the unvaxxed, if you want to support their unvaxxed do the following: buy a full fare, fully refundable ticket. Then do not show up. Refund your ticket, wait a few days and do it again on another airline. Same for Amtrack although, I have never bought a ticket on Amtrack so I do not know the fare rules. When the airlines start seeing dozens, if not hundreds of full fare seats leaving the gate empty every day, the bean counters will notice.
Flew out of Atlanta on what was supposed to be a 1:56 pm flight Friday.. They made the announcement that there was a backup of flights into Florida, he mentioned JAX. Delta flights were lined up on the tarmac for an hour. The pilot was vague about the issue holding up everything and implied it was an air traffic control problem. In all the years of flying it was odd that there were so many planes involved in the holdup.
So let’s play this out with a hypothetical……………
Options:
1) An airline can choose to give up their government contract revenue and by doing so they can keep 100% of their employees AND allow them all freedom of choice with no mandate.
or
2) An airline can choose to keep the government contract revenue and in return they must be willing to lose 25-30% of its work force with the assumption they can hire back.
Now here is where it gets interesting………
My bet is the majority of the Pilots who are resisting the jab are the more senior pilots thus probably more Captains than Co-Pilots.
So when they backfill these guys they will need to elevate the junior co-pilots to Captains and bring in possibly more raw, inexperienced co-pilots.
So now the cockpit contains a very much less experienced crew. Not to reassuring if you are a passenger.
I can only imagine the potential lawsuits if one of these planes were to have issues with a much less experienced crew all because the airline wanted to save the government revenue over keeping the experience of their more senior pilots while also willing to cast off 25-30% of their employees.
Interesting comments from a pilot –
Fantastic! God bless these folks!
There was a large pilot shortage looming prior to COVID lockdowns, it’s not like it got fixed, if anything it’s much worse as furloughed
pilots found private corporate jobs and many close to age retired early. Pilots are in demand and in control if they chose to be on this. I suspect the airlines will cave on the vax mandates if enough Pilots find their courage to resist.
Maybe the game plan is to implement all the Afghan refugees as pilots?
With all of those foreigners hiking through the southern border they should be able to find a few pilots, nurses, Drs, maybe some engineers, truck drivers, law enforcers, some fire fighters and maybe some teachers to boot. Isn’t that why illegals who break the law aren’t being coerced into getting the jab because they are our replacements?
Well, if the planes begin crashing, the cause will be COVID.
The upshot is that Gov has too much power,,,,,Much Much more than the Constitution allows……..detailed regulations from laws passed by Congress chip, chip, chip away at freedoms, and the courts do not have the intellectually capable people to understand what happens, and then do not have the intellectual understanding of how to correct it.
With 500+ comments already this has surely been said, but just in case: Funny isn’t it how the weather and ATC issues are only affecting SWA.
It would so amazing if every day Americans could step up and start working these jobs as volunteers, I realize training is involved etc. But it is insanity this is happening by design. #FJB
We are up against so much evil it is unreal.
Federal Judge Rules Against Natural Immunity Claim Challenging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By Jack Phillips
10 Oct 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/federal-judge-rules-against-natural-immunity-claim-challenging-covid-19-vaccine-mandate_4041544.html
A Bush appointed judge pulled a 1905 case as precedent.
Hope this gets appealed. SCOTUS needs to revisit 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
This was already challenged and the Supreme Court ruled that they can’t force medication on people. Can’t remember what year it was but the lawyers in this case should have know it.
On a couple of grounds:
What happens when the mandates are challenged on the grounds that the “vaccines” aren’t vaccines?
Doesn’t matter. They cannot make one take a jab.
They’re quite likely are ATC issues. From all I’ve read over the years, ATC has had a continually difficulty time keeping a competent workforce. Now as in the demand that all government workers get vaxxed. It would take a relatively small %who refuse to submit (therefore quit) to make them understaffed. This only holds if other airlines have the same problem though.
They’ll just roll the military like Regan did.
If this is true –
I used to trust the stuff Sundance posted. I sure hope he’s going to post a clarification/correction when this comes out that it is NOT some mass “vaccine walkout” but rather several events (ATC Staffing, Pilot Staffing, airport runway closure, and Irregular Ops – IROPS due to wx) coming together at the same time. This is the traditional airlines and FAA pointing the finger at one another.
Though I’d wager there will be no such correction for stoking the “rebel alliance” fires, just like the MSM doesn’t.
You obviously haven’t read the entire thread with updates from others like Alex Berenson and a commercial pilot.
25% of southwest flights cancelled two days in a row seems like more than just several events happening.
That’s not SD’s point.
Breaching a dam starts with a crack.
During time in sandbox I once heard a Muslim say you can push Americans to a point but no further.
Two weeks to flatten the curve has morph into federal and state tyranny.
We either beat tyranny economically or with rifles. The choice is with those who govern us without our consent.
Yep. It needed to start somewhere.
ALL need to buy what they need for two months….and then just stay home and write to the elected officials each day,,,,,All of them, they each need to get letters,,,,real letters, hand written, on paper, in envolopes. For 60 days.
Yes. This will probably affect my family reunion. But guess what – we all have cars. And even if not, our country is more important than our family reunion.
Let’s hope the firefighters are next -that should get some people’s attention –
He did NOT claim it was a MASS vax walkout.
Are you with DoJ?
WIth all due respect Dan, there is a disconnect, but it is NOT Sundance.
Do a little research, then we’ll wait for a “correction” from you…….
Is pretty unbelievable to see men with the anatomical parts to stand up for justice & the American way……..so we can see how you’d find the actual truth hard to believe….
If you consider many pilots being “under the weather” simultaneously bad weather, then sure.
#WithoutUsTheyFail
They are mad as a disturbed hornet’s nest.
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EXCLUSIVE: Southwest Employee Speaks Out on Canceled Flights “Source says that nearly 50% of Southwest Pilots remain unvaccinated.”
https://thedcpatriot.com/exclusive-southwest-employee-speaks-out/
for what its worth, I just wrote an email to Southwest customer service to express that I do not agree with this corporate decision and asked them to reconsider, as I will be considering other travel options.
Been a customer for 12 years.
Maybe if enough loyal customers do the same, it might make a difference.
Good Idea.
It *certainly* can’t hurt and will give them an idea we’re out here.
It’s not because of weather, commercial airlines can pretty much land blind in a hurricane if they had the want/need. When I was stationed in SD, they’d land in complete snow white out/high winds on runways covered in ice and make it look easy.
Also, we need to stop calling it a vaccine, it’s not a vaccine, it’s a biological weapon w/still unknown mechanisms of harm.
Good for them! Couldn’t be more proud…
True, but at the sMe time it accomplishes the Great Reset group of eliminating planes. Who was it that was going to have to go to HI by train?
Yes it is causing movement in the same direction as the Great Reset, but temporarily and for a purpose – forcing the hand of the enemy. It is like burning your own farmers’ fields ahead of the enemy, because it’s bad to lose that food for your side, but it would be worse to let the enemy have it.
This is now war (so far mostly bloodless) and is about power, not logic. I don’t mean it’s not logical; I mean it is now evident it wasn’t about logical arguments on what keeps people safe from disease; it’s about whether the Great Reset or we the people control whether planes fly. If we do, then long term the planes will fly, freely. If they do, the planes will fly now but later they will fly only when the elite want to fly.
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My husband just retired from SWA after 30 years as a Captain. 97% of the pilots are conservatives and they will not tolerate being bullied by the government, whether they are pro or anti-vax.
Gary Kelly, a democrat and CFO has been a numbers guy since he became CEO. He COULD give up his government contracts. It’s not always about dollars, Gary.
To quote the beloved Herb Kelleher, “Take care of your employees, and they’ll take care of your customers.”
#dontcavein
Just another indication of how, in reality, WE hold the power when we do not comply. If we stop complying, en masse, this entire march toward the great reset is over. Stop getting on the trains, FFS.
If the vaccines work…then why are they not working?
Let’s Go Brandon!
The actions of the pilots is commendable. Everyone else must follow suit.
Thank you! its about time citizens wake up & God Bless the pilots and supporting industry workers who are standing up for our rights. I wish the men & women in the military and police force take the same stand.