Herbert Keller is doing S turns in his grave…


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Media now speculating that the delays and cancellations are tied to the vaccine mandate: "Travel industry analyst Henry Harteveltd cited the ongoing vaccine wrangle as a possible reason for the chaos. Southwest's pilots union denies any industrial action is ongoing, but Harteveld said pilots could have organized to arrange in unauthorized action known as a 'work slowdown.'"

Passengers are beginning to tie the chaos to a perceived work action by the pilots at SWA: "Passengers took to Twitter to speculate over the vaccine lawsuit after rivals axed far fewer flights; American Airlines cancelled 63 flights Sunday, while United cancelled nine trips. ‘This has nothing to do with weather,’ said one Twitter user. ‘Thanks for ruining our week with our grandkids. ‘At least admit it was due to selfish pilots.’"

My guess is that SWA would love to be able to shift the perception as to who's responsible for the havoc from themselves to the pilots. They'd be thrilled if people on forums like this would help provide them with the evidence they need in order to make that shift. Filing a lawsuit against the union in federal court blaming them for an illegal work action that disrupted the operation would be an obvious way to do that. It would have the additional benefit of possibly penalizing the union financially and stripping the union of leverage.

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Exactly....SWA has two more weeks of chaos to complete if they want to compete in the true LCC arena!

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“Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll”.....

Don Williams.

p.s. TRACON passed along “let’s go Brandon!” 🤙

Im sorry to hear so many guys timed out due to the weather delays. Maybe it will clear up in 2022.

or maybe 2024…..

A rumor is circulating in traditional and
social media outlets stating JAX Center
located in Hilliard was closed due to an
organized walkout late Friday by controllers
in response to the FAA's mandate that all
employees get vaccinated for COVID...
A contact at FAA confirmed, they did have
some staffing issues at JAX center late
Friday, however those staffing issues were
due to the following:
• Normal approved leave
• Controllers who received either their
first or second dose of the vaccine and
by policy are required to stay at home
for (48) hours to self-monitor for side
effects...thus creating some staffing
issues
The FAA has multiple layers of operational
redundancy in place to ensure the stability
and reliable of the national airspace
system.......…..i.e. enroute air traffic control.
At no time was JAX operationally
compromised, nor were we required to
activate any irregular operational
contingency plans.

Jacksonville Aviation Authority COO Tony Cugno to the Board of Directors

I know you guys will dismiss this as facts are refuting your fiction but what you got besides FB posts?

baby steps first..

Weird... I witnessed with my little old eyes. LGA long winter conga lines in TPA just a day ago. 2+ hr delays for guess what.... Jax center staffing! But I’m sure it was all planned leave.