{"id":49459,"date":"2021-10-16T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=49459"},"modified":"2021-10-15T22:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:21:41","slug":"a-pilot-on-the-southwest-vaccine-mandate-snafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=49459","title":{"rendered":"A Pilot on the Southwest Vaccine Mandate SNAFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pilot discussing the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=49447\">Southwest Airlines issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kO39nIcuPhQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His points:<\/p>\n<li>Southwest was already running their entire operation <i>too<\/i> lean, too understaffed, too many hours for the people who are there, and thus the small disruptions spreads out everywhere. &#8220;Eventually you have to call in either sick or fatigued, and that&#8217;s gonna snowball.&#8221;\n<li>They&#8217;re running a lot of overtime to keep the operation running.\n<li>Too many pilots\/trainers laid off during the pandemic, so getting them back up to speed has been a challenge.\n<li>The mandate is a real issue, because major airlines are considered federal contractors, and the mandate goes against union rules. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big problem.&#8221;\n<li>Mandate deadline is December 8.\n<li>Southwest is in the middle of negotiations with their pilot union.\n<li>The union can&#8217;t be leading the strike, because that would be illegal. But individual pilots are a different story.\n<li>$15 an hour airport support personnel may indeed just quit and work somewhere else.\n<li>A lot of older pilots (and pilot trainers) are just going to retire.\n<\/li>\n<p>Time to haul this out again:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BumpyNight.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49484\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pilot discussing the recent Southwest Airlines issues. His points: Southwest was already running their entire operation too lean, too understaffed, too many hours for the people who are there, and thus the small disruptions spreads out everywhere. &#8220;Eventually you have to call in either sick or fatigued, and that&#8217;s gonna snowball.&#8221; They&#8217;re running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,319,411],"tags":[4137,6255,2876,5273,2877,2878],"class_list":["post-49459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation","category-unions","category-video","tag-airlines","tag-coronavirus","tag-regulation","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-unions","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49486,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions\/49486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}