What are you considering is the conspiracy theory?
The walk off happened, just because the CEO says it didn't, doesn't make it so.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447679841717919744?...
The walk off happened, just because the CEO says it didn't, doesn't make it so.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447679841717919744?...
"We didn’t see sick leave beyond normal. In fact, we saw our crews picking up open time to the extent that they could."
Obviously, they all desire a "return to normalcy". The CEO wants a better bottom line. The union wants to avoid fines and penalties. The FAA has political stakeholders that don't want any rumors of anyone against their mandates.
They all desire the same outcome. I would factor that in to whether their being 100% truthful about everything.
Why hasn't anyone interviewed the pilots? Seems that would clear things up.
I'm not sure why you'd think that.
It's likely I can find a doctor to interview who doesn't believe in germ theory; that doesn't tell me how widespread that is.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/11/tweets/sou...
> Murray told the Dallas Morning News that the data showed that pilot sick rates during the heavy cancellation days were "exactly in line with where they were all summer with the same kind of operational disasters."
Actual data on sick leave seems more useful that an individual anecdote or two.
For some reason we've only seen union leaders, the CEO, and others come out. If they really wanted to dispel things they'd let the pilots speak.
Perhaps via their official representatives, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association?
How many pilots would you need to see interviewed to determine there wasn't a sick-out? After all, something like 70% of flights went ahead.
1 SW pilot would be fine, not the association, not the union, not the CEO. A SW pilot that was supposed to be working that day.
A single pilot claiming to have gone to work would be sufficient to disprove the sick-out? 1,000 out of about 3,000 flights got canceled on Sunday. I presume the remaining 2,000 were piloted; I don't know that an interview is necessary to demonstrate that.
A single pilot claiming to have done a sick-out doesn't prove anything much, either. I can find a doctor that claims demon sperm causes gynecological issues (https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/report-texas-doctor-who-wen...), but that doesn't really lend it credence.
The sick leave data seems a lot more compelling than digging up one interview, in either direction.
Interviewing the pilots of that day would help, but the media doesn't seem interested in that.
Because that's how labor strikes work...
Jesus, dude. Think.