Southwest air traffic controllers have walked out

LOL. Don't confuse them, they're on a roll.

X didn't even know that airlines do not even have their own air traffic controllers.

BTW...Southwest pilots are known as "requesters" because they press so hard for early landings and turnarounds. They get paid to move butts, and get bonused on the faster they move those butts.

(I know this because I read "Nuts" one particularly bad night in Boca Raton and that was the only book on the shelf I could stomach.)

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It's got to be exhausting to operate at the level you do....

Oct 11, 2021, 10:42 AM

You post a piece by TMZ that is just speculation and actually cites the pilot union rep saying it wasn't an "official or unofficial job action by the pilots". In other words, the pilots say it wasn't them. If they did take an action over the vaccine mandate, why wouldn't they admit it?

"SWAPA is aware of operational difficulties affecting Southwest Airlines today due to a number of issues, but we can say with confidence that our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions," the union said in a statement."

You title the post that air traffic operators for an airline had a strike...when air traffic operators don't work for airlines. Is that really just a typo or an illustration of ignorance?

The TMZ piece says that Southwest blames the cancellations on weather and ATC stops and TMZ says the FAA pushed back on those claims...but no source or anything on the FAA pushback. At best it's deceiving....there were FAA stops on Friday and it left a lot of equipment and crews misplaced. That's one of the downsides to Southwest's hub/non-hub model...they sometimes don't bounce back as quickly as other airlines after delays. I believe the FAA statement said as much.

I say all this as someone who is opposed to the federal action to try to mandate the vaccine via employers. But why in the heck are you passing on wild and unfounded speculation?!?