Un-American: Air Travel in the US Descends
Into Chaos
Red State,
by
Bob Hoge
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/19/2022 10:49:53 PM
Over ten thousand flights were canceled across the nation this weekend, leaving frustrated, desperate passengers stranded in airports thousands of miles from their homes. Ten thousand flights. It’s almost too many to comprehend.
If you read my travel-hell story from Thursday night, you’ll know that I was one of those passengers, and that after my flight was canceled, I was forced to get a rental car (at my expense) and drive 12 hours through the night to get my minor children, who were being let out of camp. My kids could go get a COVID vaccine, a tattoo, and probably an abortion too, but
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/19/2022 10:59:26 PM (No. 1191010)
Is there anything this administration is not screwing up?
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Didn’t Butt Judge bring in the military logistics reserves to cure the supply chain screw up at the port of Long Beach a few months ago? Now he can call in military pilots to make up for the airline shortage.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 6/19/2022 11:13:33 PM (No. 1191016)
Or get rid of the unconstitutional mandate - firing anyone who won’t get the experimental shot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/19/2022 11:16:59 PM (No. 1191020)
Butt Gig in action. Hire more pilots dammit.
I've got lots of hours private. Can I skippidy do da from a Cessna 182 to a Boeing 737 ? Maybe.
But I won't bet my life and my passengers' on it.
Get on a plane. Good Morning folks. This is Captain Butt Gig speaking ...............
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mushroom 6/19/2022 11:19:00 PM (No. 1191023)
The Airlines share in this blame. Yes, the administration is dealing them a crap hand just because they can, but what they use as a bargaining chip is federal contracts. Fine. Maybe the airlines would be better off without all those GI flights that come with all these strings.
The other side of this is the same thing manufacturers are doing. Living by the skin of their teeth in 'just in time' type manufacturing. If Atlanta has bad weather (define bad) it can easily back up into the Northwest not having acft to fly scheduled routes. Why? Because everything is in mothballs because it costs (on paper) big money to have an acft sitting on a ramp somewhere. There are no spares.
Any other midlevel employee will recognize this stance as the day the accountants took over.
Every company starts out with a goal. It might be an airline, package service, or making widgets...but one day the accountants say we can do it cheaper 'if'. From that day on widgets are incidental. Stock Price is everything.
And that is the beginning of the end to that company. Grow or die, there is no in between to the brokers of Wall Street. And that's a shame...any one else miss Chococola? RadioShack? Remember a passbook savings account regularly paid 5%? I don't know about you, but I'm looking at .1% and loans from the same place at 18%+ Why?
It's our 401k and IRA for one. Note they aren't making big bucks anymore, but boy those brokers sure don't have a cash flow problem.
It's our own fault. How much of that money comes from
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/19/2022 11:58:17 PM (No. 1191036)
The Dempanic and the non-vaccine mRNA shots themselves, combined with the firing of those smart enough to avoid these experimental (now a failed experiment, it seems) shots is disastrous to many industries.
Firing highly skilled workers, whether they are doctors, nurses, pilots or other airline workers is exceptionally stupid as a policy. And, how many of the 'missing' pilots have heart problems caused by these mRNA shots which are a career ender for an airline pilot? I am betting that a lot of these 'crew shortages' are pilots who have failed to pass their flight physicals due to harm from these shots.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
daisey 6/20/2022 12:36:59 AM (No. 1191048)
Pete is so stupid that he thinks you can just go out and hire anyone to be a pilot, an air traffic controller, or a flight attendant. These jobs take extensive training. Years. Pete seems to think you can hire and maybe do on the job training. Or this is all going as planned.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/20/2022 12:43:24 AM (No. 1191049)
One more component in the psyop war being waged to create fear uncertainty and stress in the public. The causes of the problem will be blamed on the uninvolved and solutions will be offered that create more government control and spending that well do nothing to solve the problem and only make things worse.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/20/2022 1:54:49 AM (No. 1191059)
#8 is right on target. Watch for these kind of mini emergencies to add up to canceled elections by November. CDC is showing COVID to cause other infections when it is the vaccine that is the real culprit. Why? Red flag laws are headed in the same direction. Let the voter beware.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 6/20/2022 3:12:35 AM (No. 1191064)
Trains. Are the trains still working? Because it looks like we’re going to lose air travel as a reliable mode of transportation. I don’t want to take the bus.
Has anyone else had trouble renting cares lately? I have a couple of times now while traveling. No cars available. None. By anyone. This a few weeks out from my travel dates.
How else can this admin mess up our lives?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rich323 6/20/2022 6:03:06 AM (No. 1191088)
It’s part of Green New Deal shut down polluting airlines. Air travel will be for elites only by private jet. Serfs will be limited to government monitoring of our electric vehicles. You will only go wherever they say you can go. It’s the old UN Agenda 21 crap coming to life.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 6/20/2022 6:35:23 AM (No. 1191110)
The democrat party is a world-wide joke.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/20/2022 6:47:51 AM (No. 1191121)
Butt boy to the rescue. Said that he is going to FORCE airlines to hire more employees. This administration started this mess with mandated vaccines. Everyone lost employees. They think that they can control every aspect of this nation. Think again, it is all coming back and biting them in the butt. It's all backfiring. This administration is going down like a sinking ship.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/20/2022 7:12:54 AM (No. 1191141)
Anybody have the statistics of pilot/crew losses cue to the vaccination mandates? I'm betting those numbers would explain all these "weather" incidents.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 6/20/2022 7:14:02 AM (No. 1191144)
Our Rump Ranger Secretary strikes again!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 6/20/2022 7:31:59 AM (No. 1191158)
I am not flying anymore unless required.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/20/2022 7:33:43 AM (No. 1191159)
I thought commercial aviation was on life support....I was wrong. It is on its death bed.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pammie 6/20/2022 8:55:52 AM (No. 1191229)
REMEMBER: CHAOS to ensure COMPLIANCE! GEEZE!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/20/2022 8:56:36 AM (No. 1191231)
Why do people continue to participate in the airline circus? Isn't there a camp closer than 12 hours from your home? I can understand business travel but why put yourself through the chance of a ruined vacation by flying?
As for the pilot shortage, diversity is the only answer. Put some of our best and brightest through the "crash course" and show us what they can do.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TLCary 6/20/2022 9:35:21 AM (No. 1191267)
Vote Trump: Make the Planes Fly on Time
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 6/20/2022 9:42:40 AM (No. 1191280)
The same thing happened to people I know. Their flight was cancelled in New York, so they rented a car and drove back to Charlotte N.C.
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