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As the travel industry kicks back up after the COVID-19 pandemic, both airlines and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are struggling with a staffing crisis, unable to meet the recent demand for travel, ABC News reported.
The cancellations include 123 flights canceled Saturday, 178 flights Sunday and 97 flights were cancelled for Monday. The company attributed the cancellations to a large number of sick calls, combined with maintenance and other "staffing issues," according to the ABC News report.
American Airlines told ABC News that the cancellations may last throughout the summer, with flights being cancelled throughout June and July. The airline company said they "made targeted changes with the goal of impacting the fewest number of customers."
Many U.S. airlines and the TSA have struggled with staffing as air travel has rapidly increased in popularity from the historic lows the industry experienced in the past year.
When air travel came to a stop back in March 2020, nearly 39,000 American Airline employees took early retirement, leave or reduced hours because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dallas Morning News reported
Acting TSA Administrator Darby LaJoye asked office employees in early June to volunteer at airports for up to 45 days in attempts to fill missing positions, according to ABC News.
TSA hopes to hire 6,000 new officers to handle the summer travel boost but have only hired 3,100 as of June 9.
Reader Comments
I heard of an airline that lost 4 pilots in one week.
She works for the sick healthcare in Canada. Doctors are her Gods and has always believed in vaccines. They are so brainwashed that it is a total waste of energy to try helping them.
As a society, we seem unable to learn. Or deliberately kept from learning.
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Pilot details how he nearly blacked out whilst flying and is no longer fit to fly due to adverse reaction to the Covid Vaccine
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You caught a virus, or two, or three, from a plane flight. We've all been sickened with crap caught on packed planes. It's just life. I remember being sick for a good month with some hacking dreadful ILI years ago. Miserable but nothing new.
Airline workers, just like daycare workers, are largely immune to common ILI's because they bathe in them everyday. Same reason why dentists are far less likely to catch or die from respiratory conditions even in old age.
Now if they got shanked, all bets are off. Who knows what that's doing to the immune response, probably nothing good. If ADE is a thing with these poisons we should start seeing a drastic shift in the demographic of death by ILI to the much younger crowd. There will be every effort spent not to report on it.
I was sick for 1 weeks last March 2020 and I, can remember it well. I had a fever off and on for 3 days. My inner ear was off for 3 months after that. This covid has gotten everyone paranoid about anyone with the sniffles, the first thing most think of is covid and not all the other viruses we get passing around every year. I laugh everytime they ask me, have you been out of the country in the last 14 days? Have you had a cough or fever...do you exhibit any of these signs.....It's ridiculous and uncalled for, especially when these questions come from a medical industry person, before you can enter the clinic or hospital. I'm sorry, this is not the border and you should have been asking these questions years ago, to prevent all the sick idiots who would come to work sick everyday and infect everyone around them.
Businesses are shut down or parts thereof because they keep testing healthy people to declare them sick. That's the real problem. It's the one they don't talk about. If I was healthy and my employer tested me and told me I was sick, go home and isolate for 14 days and yet I'm healthy, sorry. I 'm not gonna work for you anymore. I think there is a lot of that going around, its disruptive and they don't talk about it. As for variants, a virologist said that for any virus, when it mutates to a new variant, they always become less viral with each new incarnation, that makes perfect logical sense to me. Don't be decieved by the news, because the sky is not falling yet! Live and be free, live in fear and be chained.
With pilots and other vaccinated individuals dropping dead, few people in their right mind would want to take the vaccine just to have a job - but there are some.
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Thousands of flights cancelled as vaccinated pilots fall ill or die
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