um... the post you're replying to says:
>> Or else one dude flew a flag and also there was a massive scheduling failure and the two are unrelated.
and also
>> Either there's a vast conspiracy that involves NOAA, the FAA, airport admin, air traffic controllers, Southwest, the pilot's union, etc.
So...
1. I'm not just trusting the CEO.
2. I never claimed the picture is doctored (because even if it's not... who cares? What is that evidence of? One person. I don't need to check the veracity of the picture because it doesn't prove anything substantive... it's an anecdote, and a poor one at that.)
Try again.
The other strange thing about the weather claim is it only affected SW for some reason.
Addressed in the article, and it'd be similarly weird for Biden's vaccine mandate to affect just Southwest.
That's not a walkout. That's one dude calling in.
> One pilot can delay a whole airline if they only have a couple planes.
LOL what are you saying? 1,800 flights were cancelled. Was that one guy flying like 200 planes simultaneously? The John Galt of pilots, no doubt.
> The other strange thing about the weather claim is it only affected SW for some reason.
See my comment on the other thread.
So... so what? The explanation from Southwest's CEO makes sense and matches up against a ton of publicly available data.
On the other hand there's evidence of at least one pissed off pilot (who, none-the-less, showed up to work?)
But, again, all that other data still exists.
So. Either there's a vast conspiracy that involves NOAA, the FAA, airport admin, air traffic controllers, Southwest, the pilot's union, etc. Or else one dude flew a flag and also there was a massive scheduling failure and the two are unrelated.
I genuinely couldn't have asked for a better exemplar of my original post: seeing a ton of verifiable data vs. a single anecdote and choosing to implicitly believe in a vast conspiracy because the anecdote touches one's feels the right way.