Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Southwest Airline story



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The video breaks down the situation with the airlines and the Covid-19 jab mandate.

Briefly, it goes like this: the situation was already bad because of the reaction to the so-called pandemic. The jab mandate just made it all the worse. He compares it with running a prop engine plane's engine "too lean". Once it gets that way, it is on the verge of failure.

It is running "lean" because there has been a labor problem due to the lockdowns and such. Too many don't want to come back to work because they were getting paid not to work. Too many that did come back are being worked longer hours to deal with the demand and the understaffing. Once the mandate kicked in, a lot of folks, especially the lower-paid ones, decide to go do something else. This is what is driving the understaffing issue.

The pilots are highly paid. The only ones who would leave are the ones near retirement anyway. But the system could use all the pilots they can get because they are understaffed. Throw all the other understaffing issues in the mix, and the situation can go downhill in a bad way.

The moral of the story is that the administration has totally screwed the pooch on this one. The video follows...



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