I’m in the airline industry. Yesterday 668 Southwest Airlines flights had canceled by the time I went to bed. They are estimating 1,000-1,400 will be cancelled today. Want to know why? They told their pilots & flight attendants they had until Nov. to get jabbed. So now they have to use all their banked vacation & personal time, or lose it & off duty crew are not picking up trips to cover. Jacksonville ATC walked out too & Milwaukee ATC is expected to follow today.
There is no weather. SW just doesn’t want to tell you the real reason why.
I asked one of the pilots about it. The answer I got was (paraphrasing):
80% of our pilots are ex-military. We see the tyranny that’s happening. They’re coming for essential workers first (nurses, doctors, firefighters, police, military, teachers & transportation workers) & they’re coming for the rest of America next. We’re not doing it for us, we’re doing it for America. We swore to defend the constitution against all enemies.
~Rosie Love