First Southwest Cancellations, Are American and Now Amtrak Next? – RedState

We noticed an enormous drawback with Southwest Airways this weekend, with over 800 flights canceled on Saturday and a thousand extra on Sunday. As we reported, the preliminary claims as to the issue had been utter nonsense — “unhealthy climate” — whereas different carriers weren’t having that vital a difficulty. Southwest canceled 28% of its schedule, based on ABC. The sheer scale of the cancellations confirmed there have been clearly inner points.

Henry H. Harteveldt, president and journey trade analyst at The Environment Analysis Group, primarily based in San Francisco, stated a part of the difficulty was how Southwest scheduled issues: that they had been scheduling too many flights and since that they had some extent to level route community, in order that when there are delays it tends to impact all over the place else. However he additionally pointed to the chance of what was being reported: that there was a “large sickout” objecting to COVID vaccine mandates.

The Southwest Pilots Affiliation formally denied that they had been concerned in such an motion, saying they weren’t collaborating in any official or unofficial motion. However, as Hateveldt famous, in the event that they had been, it could possibly be thought-about an unlawful job motion. So they’d not going acknowledge it if it had been taking place.

From CNBC:

“Make no mistake about it – as a result of months of staffing points and inefficient scheduling practices we’ve got been working at a better than regular operational threat,” the union’s security committee informed members in a submit on Saturday.

It stated studies of fatigue, which require pilots to not fly, are triple historic norms.

“All of those challenges have led to an added distraction within the cockpit,” it stated. “This week’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate announcement by the Firm solely exacerbates the state of affairs.”

Then there was phrase that American Airways is perhaps lining up within the field to be subsequent. Their pilots’ union is warning of a doable staffing scarcity if the stringent mandates are employed there for COVID vaccines.

The Allied Pilots Affiliation requested that American Airways discover “alternate technique of compliance with the Government Order be made obtainable for skilled pilots” in order to not immediate mass firings and unpaid depart following President Joe Biden’s September announcement mandating giant employers to require vaccinations or weekly testing.

On prime of that, now there are questions being raised about Amtrak after two trains had been cancelled by them as properly for “unexpected crew points.”

Trains 465 and 416 departing on 10/10 are canceled as a result of unexpected crew points. Alternate transportation can be supplied.

— Amtrak Northeast (@AmtrakNECAlerts) October 10, 2021

Now, as a result of they’re not explaining what’s occurring there, we don’t know what the rationale is behind these cancelations however the “unexpected crew points” are inflicting lots of people to conclude that it’s associated to vaccine mandate points as properly.

Amtrak is requiring all workers be both totally vaccinated or undergo weekly testing by Nov. 1, As well as, all new workers should show they’re totally vaccinated earlier than their first day beginning Oct. 4.

This push for vaccine mandates was accelerated after Joe Biden stated at the start of September that he could be enacting vaccine necessities for all companies that did federal contracting and he would impose an OSHA rule on all non-public companies with greater than 100 workers (though that rule hasn’t formally gone into impact but — extra Biden smoke and mirrors).

Actually, the whole lot Joe Biden touches simply blows up.