Pedropcola nailed it earlier, I believe. The pilots have a lot of skin in this game and some leverage to boot - the underappreciated ground workers can still grind things to a halt with their absence while finding another job for similar wages without freezing or sweating their asses off.

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Do you drive a duck boat?

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No. I drive the Overland Bridge to Europe when I go to France.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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Do you drive a duck boat?

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No. I drive the Overland Bridge to Europe when I go to France.

Ha - now I get it. Thanks. I am not well traveled so I thought you were being funny.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ew-shortage-n2598359

American airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights nationwide, a trend that continued Monday as 12 percent of the carrier's flights for the day were canceled before noon.

A shortage of pilots and flight attendants — much like the labor shortage affecting other sectors of the American economy — continues to lead to problems such as those stranding American Airlines customers across the country.

Crew shortages, caused in part by layoffs earlier in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, have only been compounded by the airline's vaccine mandate

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After similar days of cancellations plagued Southwest Airlines in October, American explained a familiar excuse, in part: weather. "Severe winds at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas have reduced American's arrival capacity by more than half, with the inclement weather also impacting the airline's staffing, American had said over the weekend," explained Reuters.

Isn't it amazing how "Severe winds" impact one airline more than other airlines?

^^^ It all depends on what you're full of at any given moment.

Of course they deny it was the Covid shot that caused blood clotting.

Mr. Edward Brice-Bennett.

The viral audio recording specifically mentions a pilot “in his mid-thirties” who received the second shot days prior to his death. Mr. Brice-Bennett’s death is the most congruent with other deaths after experimental shots.

He was found unconscious next to his bike on a trail in Tidworth, Wiltshire on June 2. It appears he was just riding his bike and suddenly collapsed. He was pronounced dead 45 minutes after he was discovered. Mr. Brice-Bennett is survived by his pregnant wife of four years and their two very young children.

https://thecovidblog.com/2021/...-staffing-shortages/

The four british pilots, the recent five jet blue pilots, the fake story about the delta pilot who collapsed in flight due to a covid vaccine...are all bullshit.

But keep getting repeated, because, you know, bullshit.

Post it again. It won't be any less bullshit.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Post it again. It won't be any less bullshit.

OK

https://www.airlive.net/british-airways-says-its-four-pilots-did-not-die-from-covid-19-vaccine/]Four healthy British Airways pilots recently died, and the airline claims that its pilots did not die from the COVID-19 vaccine

These people who did not die, have their names posted on legitimate sites:

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The three British Airways pilots were identified as Capt. Nicholas Synnott; Senior First Officer Edward Brice-Bennett; and Senior First Officer Grant Mercer. Capt, Synnott and FO Bennett died in June, whereas FO Mercer died earlier on May 4.

This is a blue check Twitter account: https://twitter.com/British_Ai...?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Official British Airways Twitter account. We love reading your Tweets & are here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help.

And you say this is not true? These people didn't die?

House money says those pilots are dead.

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And you say this is not true? These people didn't die?

They died. They did not die from being vaccinated. Assertions that this is the case are a lie.

The links you posted back this up; claims that the pilots died of vaccine, are bullshit.

Captain Nicholas Synnott died in June 2021. He contracted Covid 19 in Texas early in 2020, and was held in the hospital in Houston until December 2020. He was very sick with the virus. Every organ in his body was affected. The notion that the vaccine killed him in June is ridiculous. British airways has stated that the assertion that Synnott, Edward Brice-Bennot, Grant Mercer, and one other died of the vaccine, is false. British airways has stated that none of the four deaths were linked.

Edward Brice-Bennett died in June 2021. He was found unconscious on a bike trail, and pronounced dead by paramedics. The coroners inquest determined hs suffered from abdominal trauma and internal bleeding.

The conspiracy bullshit about vaccine being the cause of their deaths being the vaccine has been bantied around, without any substantiation. Some seem to think that if they keep repeating it, somehow it becomes true.

Same for the recent assertions about the five Jet Blue pilots, and the complete fabrication about a Delta pilot collapsing at the flight controls and dying in flight, from a vaccination. Lies.

The case of the British pilots, and the five jet blue pilots was pushed by the quack Jane Ruby, who claims to be a "doctor," and is a big anti-vaxxer, who is quite content to tell not just misrepresentations but complete lies. Turns out the jet blue pilots did die...but not even of Covid 19, let alone vaccine. Cancer, a crash on a recreational vehicle, and another wasn't even a pilot.

More recently, Ruby claimed that a Delta pilot collapsed in flight and died, due to a Covid 19 vaccination. Not only did the pilot not die, but the pilot didn't collapse; in fact, it was a complete fabrication. Conspiracy theorist Ruby claimed it was manetized vaccine that killed the pilot, but in fact, she made it all up.

As previously noted in this thread:

https://news.delta.com/delta-c...employee-allegations

https://keyt.com/news/2021/10/...ilot-died-in-flight/

That is just science. If you die from cancer and test positive for covid with an inaccurate pcr test it is a covid death.

Die young and healthy after a covid jab and it can't be the safe and effective vacccine.

Follow the science.

Inventing deaths that didn't occur isn't science.

Labeling deaths as vaccine related when there is nothing to substantiate it, isn't science.

When source of the reporting of the pilot vaccine deaths are conspiracy sources, it's not science.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
And you say this is not true? These people didn't die?

They died. They did not die from being vaccinated. Assertions that this is the case are a lie.

Tell me how you know this, please.

All this seems to upset you quite a bit.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Inventing deaths that didn't occur isn't science.

Labeling deaths as vaccine related when there is nothing to substantiate it, isn't science.

When source of the reporting of the pilot vaccine deaths are conspiracy sources, it's not science.

Weren’t you in the thread about Fauci funding experiments on dogs also insisting that was a fake conspiracy? And when asked how you were so certain (along with additional proof coming out) never showed up in the thread to defend your position?

You seem to know a lot of things; I bet you’re fun at parties and a conversational joy in the cockpit for long flights.

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:

Weren’t you in the thread about Fauci funding experiments on dogs also insisting that was a fake conspiracy? And when asked how you were so certain (along with additional proof coming out) never showed up in the thread to defend your position?

I was in that thread, and provided documentation. Did you read it?

"Additional proof" in the form of memes repeating the same lies wasn't "proof," and didn't dignify a response.

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Die young and healthy after a covid jab and it can't be the safe and effective vacccine.

Lots of people die after the 2nd Covid jab. Not all of them pilots…
VAERS lists over 17,000 of them.
Coincidence? Maybe some of them.

So far it isn't getting much better at AA.

American Airlines cancels more flights; total tops 2,300

Weather and staffing-led turbulence stretched into a fourth day for American Airlines, with the top U.S. carrier canceling more flights on Monday to push the total number to nearly 2,300.

The airline said it canceled 340 flights, or 6% of its total planned flights on Monday, as of 11 a.m. ET.

Staffing shortages have hit American Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co and Spirit Airlines Inc in particular, as they ramp up flights ahead of the holiday season but face problems finding enough pilots and flight attendants.

“Flight Attendant staffing at American is strained and reflects what is happening across the industry as we continue to deal with pandemic-related issues,” flight attendants’ union APFA said.

American’s pilot union said last month they planned to picket the carrier’s major hubs to protest work schedule, fatigue, and a lack of adequate accommodation this summer.

The cancellations are another setback to the Texas-based company, which is already reeling from rising fuel and labor costs impacting the industry as the U.S. prepares to open borders to fully vaccinated travelers.

“The airline had particular weather issues that then spiraled into rippled cancellations and were compounded by an inability to fill out schedules from their labor reserves,” UBS analyst Myles Walton said.

Severe winds at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport reduced American’s arrival capacity by more than half, with the inclement weather also impacting staffing.

The company, however, hoped some of that impact could be mitigated with nearly 1,800 flight attendants returning from leave starting Monday.

“We expect considerable improvement beginning today with some residual impact from the weekend,” company spokeswoman Sarah Jantz said in a statement. American’s shares recovered losses to trade up 1%.

Meanwhile, rival airlines seemed to have fared better.

Delta Air Lines Inc said on Monday it has not experienced any weather-related cancellations so far, while United Airlines said there were no “widespread cancellations.”

https://nypost.com/2021/11/02/...campaign=android_nyp

He flies the world. Associates with elites, he fights wars, fights fires, is a parachute expert. An expert in health and wellness and vaccines. Because he has had them all. Is in with airline executives and that is just for starters.
He knows all and tends to get a tad irritated when underlings bring up things that put into question his all knowing powers. It is just that simple. Of course I am talking about the guppy.

Let's be nice, please.