SFO has not done water cannon for at least 3 years. Why? Answer is the water shortage. City won’t let them.

Recently retired Captain (2 weeks before the glorious all female flight) did not get one in DEN because it was “too cold, (41 degrees).

Fact checks, this was purely a marketing move by UAL. Considering the fact, yes fact, UAL has been giving preferential hiring since 1978 to minorities and females, because of 1976 legal action (which is still being brought up these days, see link below). In my opinion the problem is there isn’t a very big pool of qualified applicants to fill those slots.

And lest anyone complain they are being left out, in the 90s UAL changed their flight time experience requirements to give a greater weight to single seat fighter types because of the difference in accumulated flight hours with heavy transport types.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-p...ited-airlines/

Like COVID, this kind of stuff will never end. Probably going to revisit the age discrimination lawsuit again.

BTW, I believe this wasn’t the “first” all female flight crew. I seem to remember such a thing made the Company news years go. But maybe this time they arrange so the rest of the staff was also all female and that’s what makes it something special. So, were they (as in a generic non-binary kind of “they”) on time? That’s really all the customers care about.

Found it! From 2016. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-...-women-pilots/

Was the public lied to yesterday?