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People not flying at the beginning of the Covid scare. This has been going on since the start. Airlines laid off people. When travel started up they were shorthanded. It takes time to ramp up again.
Um, that's old news. We've been aware of that for months now. What's happened in the last few days is hundreds of flights being delayed or cancelled due to staff leaving. I've seen countless stories of people who's flights were cancelled half an hour before they were supposed to fly out. People who already are fully checked into the airport. This is due to pilots walking out, taking leave and quiting due to the mandate and this is very very recent due to Bidens mandate starting to be enforced. If you follow the story closely enough you'll see the difference. My wife told me she read a story where a family who's flight was cancelled asked a staff member why this was happening and the staffs response was many of our pilots have quit or taken leave since Bidens mandate was enforced and we can't keep up. The airlines are trying to cover this up but in the long term they won't be able to.
"..unexpected limited staff at the Jacksonville facility that handles high-altitude.."
They couldn't just say "not enough air traffic control people showed up for work"
Maybe those FAA guys did a sick out.
We won't be told if workers are rejecting these vaccine mandates. We'll have to read between the lines of stories of "unexpected staff shortage".
This exactly. Read between the lines people. If you don't want to trust the Facebook posts of people who's flights were cancelled last minute then go to the airport yourself and ask the staff themselves if this worker shortage is due to weather issues or this mandate.
Um, that's old news. We've been aware of that for months now. What's happened in the last few days is hundreds of flights being delayed or cancelled due to staff leaving. I've seen countless stories of people who's flights were cancelled half an hour before they were supposed to fly out. People who already are fully checked into the airport. This is due to pilots walking out, taking leave and quiting due to the mandate and this is very very recent due to Bidens mandate starting to be enforced. If you follow the story closely enough you'll see the difference. My wife told me she read a story where a family who's flight was cancelled asked a staff member why this was happening and the staffs response was many of our pilots have quit or taken leave since Bidens mandate was enforced and we can't keep up. The airlines are trying to cover this up but in the long term they won't be able to.
SW pilot union and mechanics union sued over the mandate.
Workers at AA and SW have been protesting outside the airports.
Why aren't the major MSM sites reporting how the people feel about this ?
And in the Las Vegas news, SWA cancels dozens of flights last night (Saturday) at McCarran, blaming 'weather' and air traffic control issues. Hmmmm ... maybe due to labor shortages is what I'm thinking.
This isn’t total fake news. The OP seems to have exaggerated a bit but so have you the other way. So, you are both fake news in an attempt to smear the other party. Here is a local article that states that part of the problem was “an unexpected shortage of staff”. They don’t say what that means, and the reporter is still waiting on answers when this was written. I want to know what caused the staff shortage as well as get a better idea of why so many planes were delayed. Don’t you?
They can now say, 99% of their staffs are vax'd...... They won't tell you how it got there.
But we cannot service or help you, because we are way understaffed.
Do you people have a focus problem, the thread was initiated based on claims of controller walkout, that turned out to be a lie. Now your off an running on riots and class warfare.
No disrespect but can you read? It does indeed appear to be an ATC walkout causing this. I posted an article that hinted at that and so did others. Here is a Reddit thread where insiders seems to confirm that indeed it was ATC walkouts. There are apparent walk outs all over the place in relation to the airline industry. The unions are defending the pilots and others, and rightly so. Your liberal media is not covering this.
Thursday, a storm rolled through and stopped FL2K in Bradenton.
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