"But my son is home alone...."
Posted on 01/06/2022 9:17:16 AM PST by george76
U.S. sees its worst stretch of flight cancellations since the start of the pandemic..
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Carriers have now scrubbed more than 22,000 flights since Christmas Eve.
Nearly 1,700 U.S. flights were canceled by Wednesday evening, the 11th straight day of more than 1,000 cancellations and the airline industry’s worst stretch since the start of the pandemic.
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In 2020, the airline industry went through a brutal stretch from late March to early May, when it canceled nearly one-third of all scheduled flights, scrubbing thousands of trips daily for 47 straight days
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The airline industry for months had been confronting labor shortages
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Southwest Airlines Co. canceled 510 flights by Wednesday evening, about 16% of its schedule ... The airline said bad weather at its hubs in Baltimore, Denver and Chicago prompted many of the cancellations.
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Pilots aren’t always trained to fly multiple aircraft types. Employees such as flight dispatchers and mechanics can only take on so much extra work safely, meaning airlines at times have no choice but to resort to cancellations.
Alaska Air Group Inc. canceled 114 flights by Wednesday evening, 16% of its scheduled flights for the day, and delayed another 61.
“Like many other airlines, this latest surge of Covid is driving higher-than-usual absences among all our workgroups,” an Alaska Air Group spokeswoman said. “This is compounded by the residual impacts of winter weather in several of our key hubs.”
JetBlue, which has scrubbed more than 100 flights over the last seven days, had four cancellations by Wednesday evening. The carrier didn’t respond to a request for comment. It has previously said it would trim its schedule through mid-January, citing more of its employees contracting Covid-19.
American Airlines canceled 21 flights by Wednesday evening, after scrapping more than 500 from Saturday through Monday.
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Maybe customer demand is down for flying prisons.
I flew from Spokane to San Jose on Monday and had a great seatmate. We chatted the whole way, something I rarely do. Neither of us wore masks the entire two hours and didn’t get hassled once!
I’m trying to work up some sympathy... I’m failing.
No correlation with firing crew due to vax mandates.......
Hmm.
The major airlines, such as Delta and United, chased all of their quality pilots and crews away with threats of termination for not taking the rat poison vaxx.
Now we see those desperate enough to poison themselves for the sake of keeping their jobs suffer the consequences of the rat poison vaxx by not being able to work.
They were all poisoned, and now large swaths of them cannot fly and support the aircraft.
Too many crews saying “NO” to the clot shot.
According to the FAA the average # of flights in the US daily is 45,000....that makes the cancelation percentage a little over 2%.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/
Typical of the media to focus on cancelation numbers instead of the roughly 97-98% not canceled.
Better to lose tens of millions of dollars than to have some people get the sniffles
Great way to be a profitable business!
PING!!!
Is it true that taking the clot shot means not being certified “fit to fly” (if that’s the term) when taking mandatory FAA physical?
Firing pilots, crew, mechanics, and other staff - pure bloods with natural immunity - was a bad idea..
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines - the case is very strong that masks do not work against a virus.. do not add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4021799/posts
Could be the new normal. Of course, we’ll have electric cars to help make up for it. /S
"But my son is home alone...."
....And it has nothing to do with rising jet fuel prices.
I’m trying to work up some sympathy... I’m failing.
Better open up your wallet then, because Brandon will make sure we bail out the airlines for their losses.
“Better open up your wallet then, because Brandon will make sure we bail out the airlines for their losses.”
If not that, it will be something else. Washington politicians lay awake at night trying to figure out how to get every last dollar that we have.
Sooner or later, the stupid public will have had enough, or they won’t. Either way, I have no say in it.
This is where the producers halt all activity and place the burden on the elected officials and the people who elected them into office.
STOP IT NOW!
“Better open up your wallet then, because Brandon will make sure we bail out the airlines for their losses.”
If not that, it will be something else. Washington politicians lay awake at night trying to figure out how to get every last dollar that we have.
Sooner or later, the stupid public will have had enough, or they won’t. Either way, I have no say in it.
I have no sympathy for the airlines. These AH’s have been seeding the entire planet with Chicom viruses and who knows what else.
I used spend some time at the Bradley International terminal at LAX and watched zillions of Muslims and assorted foreign nationals pour out of that building 24/7...It was down right disgusting.
Out of 2.54 million fights by domestic airlines per day, domestic and international flights.
That’s about 1 flight in 2540 flights that are/were cancelled.
Horrors!
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