I am curious if I will ever be able to make it back to the mainland, or am I stuck in Hawaii?
Sorry, forgot to post that I refuse the forced gene poison jab...
“The Southwest Airlines story was being reported and then suddenly disappeared. Did the pilots and aircrews deliberately strike in objection to the vax mandate?”
It seems that way - or something related.
I heard people took their accumulated days off because they don’t want to lose them if they are fired later.
They also have accrued paid time off, which they must use or lose.
They also have the option of refusing to take overtime pay to volunteer to work additional hours.
This last weekend they chose to take the paid time off and NOT volunteer to work OT.
We just flew with swa in the last 36 hrs. A few hundred pilots and crew took a couple of days of PTO, serving notice that they would rather not have to choose between jab or Job.
It is a pilot sickout. Technically not a strike.
Sickout = everybody calls in sick.
Protesting vaccine mandate.
Media enjoyed that kind of labor actions, when they stroke greedy republican management types.
But, this is a strike against our bellowed resident Bidet.
“We cannot report on That!”
We flew to Phoenix Thursday, Oct 7. On Saturday night, Oct 9, I received a text that our Sunday, butt crack of dawn flight back to Denver had been canceled. The earliest flight out that Southwest was offering was an 8pm Monday night flight. I found that we could rent a car and drive back to Denver was less expensive than staying at the hotel with no guarantees that we would still be able to fly out. Plus we had to be home before Monday. So we went to the airport, secured the rental and left Phoenix at 2:30a and arrived Denver at 5:00p. That turned out to be a 39 hour day for us. Southwest refunded our return tickets and sent us two $250 vouchers for future travel. We were lucky to be able to obtain the rental. The rental was $250 and the total fuel was $70.