Posted on 06/29/2021 8:36:55 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
(Excerpt from halfway down): According to flightaware.com, 120,000 cancellations per year is the average for global flights. An average day would see 329 cancellations. A 2 day average would see 658 cancellations. But between Friday and Saturday, 3,533 cancellations occurred. That’s a 580% increase in cancellations globally in the past 2 days.
Sending kids to college costs a fortune now so I have been sucked dry.
That’s funny. ABC News has a story that American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights over the weekend due to staffing and maintenance issues.
Some of the disparity between Southworst (thousands) and ‘Murican (hundreds) might be different hubs, if it were really weather, depending. You’d think if it were due to weather in Chicago it’d have been mentioned by all the airlines, given how important O’Hare is.
But you govt trolls ought to learn to get your fabrication cover stories straight with each other first before going public.
Is it an F-15? /letters of marque and reprisal updated for 21st century>
“Give me another putative cause for a 500% increase in cancellations.”
That’s easy to answer when you actually talk to pilots, but their explanation is not nearly as much fun as your hair on fire story.
American and other majors riffed pilots when the covid shutdown began. This created a big pilot shortage when reopening began, because once they are riffed pilots cannot simply be recalled. They have to go through a lengthy retraining process.
The pilots who are coming back are being retrained. Some pilots have decided not to come back and are retiring instead. A few airlines didn’t rif any pilots and they aren’t suffering a shortage. I know that this isn’t as satisfying as the vaccine wiping out herds of pilots, but sometimes reality is mundane.
That doesn’t look correct for several reasons.
1) With COVID going on as long as it has (remember the Federal bailout which the companies mainly used just to buy back stock?), you’d think they’d have rotated pilots in and out to keep as many possible qualified.
2) Airlines know how to forecast and plan. Why would they bother scheduling flights if they knew they didn’t have enough pilots for them? They’d know how many pilots are available.
3) The uptick in cancellations is recent, sudden, and monotonic.
4) Your reason is one of several disjoint explanations all being shoved forward at the same time. Some of the others are weather in Denver and Chicago (mentioned by Southwest but not American); staffing and maintenance issues (American); lack of qualified pilots...
5) I didn’t say the vaccine wiped out herds of pilots. But if a few pilots died after the jab (both being a pilot and receiving the jab increase the risk for DVT / abnormal blood clots), then word probably got out PRONTO among the pilots. Alternatively, maybe the insurance companies underwriting the airlines are demanding all pilots get thoroughly checked before being allowed to fly again, since it wouldn’t be healthy for their wallets if a pilot was to have an embolism and stroke out while flying a plane, as it makes landing more...challenging.
6) Finally, PR dictates that the airlines want to keep any HINT of this out of the public consciousness so that people don’t stampede away from flying in fear of a pilot having a stroke.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/travel/southwest-flight-delays/287-860f60a5-e148-4b78-a376-d31cabe0a541
“Osborn’s Southwest Airlines flight was one of more than 1,300 the airline canceled or delayed”
(It’s “thousands cancelled” only when you pretend that “delayed” is the same as cancelled.)
“The website (Flight Aware) reported 168, or 4%, of the (Southwest) airline’s Monday flights were canceled and at least 1,244 flights, or 34%, were delayed.”
“Southwest says weather is to blame for the cancellations.”
“Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, agreed that weather is a factor in the delays and cancellations.
“He claims the airline is facing staffing shortages caused by pilots and others taking extended time off to avoid pandemic-related layoffs”
“The FAA requires pilots to undergo training before they fly again if they’ve been out of the air for a certain number of days.”
“We have about 900 pilots who are coming back from extended time off that are being trained in June and July and we’ll probably slip into August,” Murray said.
(Alas, neither Southwest nor their pilot’s association is blaming killer vaccines for the missing pilots. But it’s always possible that they are Government Trolls so there’s that.)
"Southwest blames storms for mass delays and cancellations, but pilots say other issues are at play"
The passenger who they quoted in the article:
"Osborn said the Denver airport was filled with people trying to find a place to sleep.
“They didn’t cancel our flight until 1:00 a.m., and at that point there were no hotel rooms left, no rental cars and no resources for us to find a place to stay and maybe shower,” she said."
Gee, if they knew they didn't have enough pilots due to retraining, they'd know that before 1 AM.
And the article below yours on the same page you linked said "the spokesperson could not comment specifically on why Southwest had a disproportionately higher number of cancellations and delays than other domestic carriers, he said weather at some of their major hubs - like Denver, Chicago and Orland - was a major factor."
OK, So thunderstorms at O'Hare *only* affect Southworst, I get it.
Somebody's blowing smoke.
“That doesn’t look correct for several reasons.”
I tend to give greater weight to the opinion of airline pilots as to what “looks correct”. Feel free to tell me why you think you are better informed than they are.
1) “you’d think they’d have rotated pilots in and out to keep as many possible qualified.”
Airlines didn’t take your advice. They riffed pilots.
2) “Why would they bother scheduling flights if they knew they didn’t have enough pilots for them? “
They don’t do that. But they do have no margin for error and can’t cover normal events that keep pilots from being able to cover a shift.
3) “The uptick in cancellations is recent, sudden, and monotonic.”
The pilot shortage is recent. The ripple effect of last years riffing.
4) “Your reason is one of several disjoint explanations all being shoved forward at the same time”
It’s not “my reason”. It’s what two first seaters tell me. How many airline captains do you speak to on a routine basis?
5) “But if a few pilots died after the jab (both being a pilot and receiving the jab increase the risk for DVT / abnormal blood clots), then word probably got out PRONTO among the pilots. Alternatively, maybe the insurance companies underwriting the airlines are demanding all pilots get thoroughly checked before being allowed to fly again,”
lol. “if” “probably” “Alternatively, maybe” There’s certainty for you. Have you considered a career in fiction writing?
6) “Finally, PR dictates that the airlines want to keep any HINT of this out of the public consciousness so that people don’t stampede away from flying in fear of a pilot having a stroke.”
If you think that pilots serve as PR flacks for their airlines it’s because you don’t know any.
Then why the 500% increase all of a sudden? Did the number of scheduled flights for all airlines all over the world suddenly jump all at the same time? And why did the number of cancelled flights increase monotonically?
They don’t do that. But they do have no margin for error and can’t cover normal events that keep pilots from being able to cover a shift.
That doesn't explain the spike, nor the monotonic increase. The pilot shortage is recent. The ripple effect of last years riffing.
Still doesn't explain the sudden increase in cancellations.
It’s not “my reason”. It’s what two first seaters tell me. How many airline captains do you speak to on a routine basis?
None. But I've seen lots of doctors saying they were threatened, and read news articles of doctors losing their academic positions, for not spewing the party line on Ivermectin or on COVID/jabs. So why should airline pilots be exempt?
lol. “if” “probably” “Alternatively, maybe” There’s certainty for you. Have you considered a career in fiction writing?
That's funny, other trolls on these threads said I was given to hysteria and toxoplasmosis. You trolls can't even keep your insults straight.
If you think that pilots serve as PR flacks for their airlines it’s because you don’t know any.
It's spokespeople for the airlines putting out the "bad weather" cover story. The pilots are blowing the whistle on that cover story.
bttt
Could that be why FRAUDci/Australia, even the US, in some states, have tried to squelch Ivermectin?
To prevent it from being a treatment....for these shots?
🤷♀️
Persons who will ignore the killing of thousands have an agenda. Ivermectin is an obstacle to that agenda being fulfilled.To my mind, Fraudci is a mass murderer working for gloablist masters who actually want hundreds of millions to die and be out of their way. Fraudci and Scarfina should be on trial for crimes against humanity ...
Flights are cancelled because they laid off way too many people (pilots and many other staff) last year, and didn’t hire them back soon enough.
Not yet anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/flights-cancellations-southwest-american-airlines/
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/National-airplane-cancellations-to-continue-16278795.php
76-year old female here. Got the first Moderna shot mid-January (I’m a hospital volunteer), second shot four weeks later. Mildly sore arm at the injection site, no other side effects.
Another thought....maybe a LOT of employees quit over any vax mandate....add that in.
“You trolls can’t even keep your insults straight.”
Ah, the low intellect’s favorite retort. Anyone who exposes your stupidity is a troll.
I know people are out of ammo when they try to call me stupid.
(Pats troll on head)
I wouldn’t want to fly with them clotting and stroking out in the sky.
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