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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by zenithd on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:15PM (#28857097)
> We trust the CEO on his word, but a Gadsden flag hanging out of a window must be either a fake rendering or someone else must have snuck onto an airport runway and hung it there in an unrelated event and waited for this event to post it.

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.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by hunterb123 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:24PM (#28857220)
Sure it could have just been "one dude" but a walkout by one pilot is still a walkout and not a weather event. One pilot can delay a whole airline if they only have a couple planes.

The other strange thing about the weather claim is it only affected SW for some reason.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by ceejayoz on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:33PM (#28857319)
> 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.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by zenithd on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:32PM (#28857311)
> Sure it could have just been "one dude" but a walkout by one pilot is still a walkout and not a weather event.

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.

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