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I've been reading about a wave of Southwest flight cancellations happening yesterday (Oct. 8) and continuing today. Southwest's Facebook page is blaming the issue on air traffic control issues and weather. People commenting on the site are saying that lack of pilots is the immediate concern.
What I'm wondering is, why is it happening all of a sudden? (And yes, I know it's happened before.) Why would all these flights get cancelled all at once, instead of a smaller number of cancellations spread out over time? There's been some speculation that forcing the flight crews to get vaccinated has resulted in some of them quitting or getting fired, which would result in the flights they were scheduled to operate getting cancelled.
A worker at the Jacksonville ATC facility tested positive for Covid, so they shut it down for two hours for cleaning. That restricted the number of flights and caused cancellations and schedule disruption for flights to and from Florida.
Vaccine mandates. The same thing is going to happen at American shortly.
If you want to get where you are going over Thanksgiving and Christmas, book a ticket on Delta (the only carrier that hasn't yet forced such a mandate on its employees), or United (the only airline that has already fired or laid off employees with natural immunity or religious/philosophical objections).
Why not just clue us all in. Spoiler alert, it’s an airline employee “sick out” where hundreds called in sick to protest Southwest’s recent embrace of requiring covid shots for all employees, regardless if they have had covid with good antibodies already in their bodies.
Responsible press would have put that in the headlines.
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Why not just clue us all in. Spoiler alert, it’s an airline employee “sick out” ...
Responsible press would have put that in the headlines.
and helpful posters will summarize for those of us with Pay-per-byte, S-L-O-W and very (very) expensive internet (when it happens to be functional a few hours / day / week / month).
Just got off the SWA call (at 3AM) rebooking and straightening out 'automated-re-book' (Changing your 4 hr flight + connections to 8+ hrs)
SWA Reservation Staff getting OT today! (going to be tough on SWA stock today, will erase 10% recent gains).
Mandate is a huge mistake (by Fed Gov), there are better and cheaper and much more effective ways of meeting Covid reduction objectives.
Employees are not always dumb, but managers and politicians are often mis-directed.
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What I'm wondering is, why is it happening all of a sudden? (And yes, I know it's happened before.) Why would all these flights get cancelled all at once, instead of a smaller number of cancellations spread out over time? There's been some speculation that forcing the flight crews to get vaccinated has resulted in some of them quitting or getting fired, which would result in the flights they were scheduled to operate getting cancelled.
Air traffic controllers and pilots walked out to protest vaccine mandates.
This is not the first SWA problem this year and the others happened PRIOR to vaccine mandates.
But don’t let me get in the way of a good conspiracy.
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Sickout to protest covid shots
