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To: grey_whiskers
The first link the article is NYT which put up a paywall. But at another site there's this: Southwest Airlines Pilots Association president Casey Murray said the carrier is struggling in part because about 1,400 pilots are still out on voluntary leave that the company begged employees to take to trim payroll during the pandemic.

The second link has this: "The first few weeks of June have brought unprecedented weather to our largest hubs, heavily impacting our operation and causing delays, canceled flights and disruptions to crew member schedules and our customers' plans," Shannon Gilson, a spokesperson for the airline, told CNN. "That, combined with the labor shortages some of our vendors are contending with and the incredibly quick ramp up of customer demand, has led us to build in additional resilience and certainty to our operation by adjusting a fraction of our scheduled flying through mid-July."

The third link is this: https://www.thelocal.it/20210615/travel-why-are-airlines-cancelling-flights-between-the-uk-and-italy/?amp Not much in there about pilots.

The link to pilot vaccinations is speculative. It's possible but there's no data to back it up in any of those links, or even qualitative support for the idea. The rest of the Colorado Herald piece is speculation and innuendo.

63 posted on 06/29/2021 10:13:15 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer
Top. Kek.

This is the same kind of lame excuses we've become accustomed to seeing from you trolls.

You quote the NY Slimes and CNN as dispositive.

What part of "pilots already have a heightened risk of deep vein thrombosis" and "pilots talk to each other informally" don't you get?

What part of "insurance companies don't want to pay for claims if an airline pilot strokes out mid-flight" are you incapable of following?

What part of "if news of this gets out the airline industry will go bankrupt because people will panic" is too difficult for you?

64 posted on 06/29/2021 10:16:54 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: palmer
The rest of the Colorado Herald piece is speculation and innuendo.

I understand that not everybody has experience reading peer reviewed studies to evaluate credibility, but they should be able to critically read the 'local' internet rag.

92 posted on 06/29/2021 11:01:42 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I’m running that far! )
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