Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lots of flights cancelled. Mayor Pete says airlines need to get their act together. It’s the airlines fault.
Airlines say there’s a pilot shortage, goes back to the Colgan Air disaster when FAA raised pilot minimum hours to 1,500, which makes it harder for new pilots to get hired. Airlines want FAA to raise the mandatory retirement age again, to 67, so they can fly with the pilots they have while waiting for new pilots to be trained.
Pilots say it’s inflation eroding pay, crappy scheduling and the vaccine mandate. Lost a bunch of pilots because of it, can’t hire new ones because they won’t take the vaxx.
Bernie Saunders says Congress gave airlines a bailout during the Covid crisis the Democrats created, which makes the airlines beholden to Democrats for their existence, so now he wants to fine airlines $55,000 per passenger for cancelled flights to punish airlines for failing to find enough pilots who possess the required number of hours and also have the mandated vaccine.
Pile up enough restrictions and you can kill any industry.
I was planning to someday retire to Florida. Guess we’ll be driving there on the racist roads, assuming the Lesko Brandon administration doesn’t ban interstate travel. That and quartering soldiers in private homes are about the only Constitutional rights they haven’t violated yet.
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAmerica had it so good, through the Reagan\/Gingrich boom of the 1990s.<\/p>
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Someone just had to screw it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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