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Originally Posted by manaboutown
The pilots are too busy to fly as they are shaking down their employers for more pay for less work. More than 1,200 Delta pilots picket at 7 major airports to call for higher pay : NPR
Southwest Airlines pilots picket, say they'''re tired of being understaffed and overworked
Year ago I used to fly AmericaWest (known as AmericaWorst to flight crews as well as passengers). For quite a while the pilots were having flights delayed and canceled for any trivial excuse they could imagine. For months it was a nightmare of missed connections, losing great upgrade seats when they canceled my flights and crammed me into middle seats of other flights, getting stuck overnight in connecting cities and so on. One day I was up in first class and the pilot was pulling some stunt about why he could not take off due to a light on the console not working properly. A guy near me pulled out his FAA credentials and waved them at the pilot and told him to get the plane in the air or he would get written up. We took off in minutes. |
100% BS…. Your interpretation of what happened is skewed and misinformed. As a actual professional pilot that story NEVER happen. The FAA,pilot, and airline would all be fined if the events happened as you described. Please, quit spreading false and misleading information.
I’ve found through the years the public interpretation of events wildly varies from facts.