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Ahead of Vax Mandate, Major Airline Cancels Nearly a Third of All Flights

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We all know about the “waves” of the coronavirus pandemic, as precautions wax and wane, with public sentiment and government messaging all playing a part role in the situation as well.  Then, you toss in the natural immunity versus mutation struggle, the weather, and other cyclical factors, and it can become somewhat simple to predict just where this thing is headed, even if only for a few weeks at a time.

But one of the surprising trends of the COVID-19 debacle has been the continuation of the American labor shortage, even as a great many jobs become available during this time of economy revitalization.  Many individuals are simply not going back to work, and it has lead to some strange times for industries that once relied heavily on minimum wage or tipped-wage labor.

As this labor shortage continues, you would think that corporations would be doing everything in their power to keep the workers they do have happy, but vaccine mandates have threatened to gut the workforce in a number of industries.

Now there are fears there is some labor turbulence in the airline industry.

Just two days after the Southwest pilots union asked a federal judge to block the company’s vaccine mandate, the airline canceled 1,800 flights this weekend, blaming bad weather.

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“Southwest Airlines canceled more than 1,800 flights this weekend, disrupting the travel plans of thousands of customers and stranding flight crews, blaming the meltdown on a combination of bad weather, air traffic control and its own shortage of available staff,” reported CNBC.

In a note to staff on Sunday, Alan Kasher, executive vice president of daily flight operations, said that the airline “did not anticipate” the series of disruptions that arose over the weekend.

“I know this is incredibly difficult for all of you, and our customers are not happy,” said Kasher.

“Although we were staffed for the weekend, we could not anticipate the significant disruption that was created from unexpected ATC issues and bad weather across our Florida stations,” he added.

Cynical researchers were quick to point out that the FAA has not made any suggestions about a staff shortage, and that the percentage of the total canceled flights in the nation over the weekend that were Southwest’s suggests that the issue is not a systemic one, but a singular one.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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