United & Delta cancelling flights tomorrow (100 United, 90 Delta)

[womanofthehills]

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[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[Lucinda]

2. ...

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Why hasn't the admin issued a rule that you cant fly without proof of vax? Joe has the power

I think.

This is nuts.

[BigmanPigman]

10. They're angry about losing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. They believe this economy sucks. They think the SC is not Con enough. They think Joe is communist

They don't care if they are doing better or not. They think Biden is also fascist.

They also think they are losing their White Privilege Cards. That scares them shitless.

They feel all of that would be different if they "won".

But they are also turning against tRump over his support of vaccines (but not mandates). DeathSentence's name is frequently mentioned.

[madville]

22. Being vaccinated doesn't matter as far spreading it

Omicron is spreading through vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. My 72 year old uncle, vaccinated and boosted was admitted to the hospital tonight, 24 hours after first showing symptoms and a positive test this morning.

[pnwest]

7. Yeah - that's gonna be a reeaaaall popular move.

[Initech]

5. Here we go again.

Fuck the Omicron variant!!!

[Takket]

8. yikes......... i would not want to be fielding customer services calls tonight.........

not much you can do to ever "make it better" when someone thinks you ruined their family Christmas.

190 flights, maybe 200 people per flight? That's about 38,000 Christmases disrupted.

[roamer65]

9. Air travel is a large mode of transmission.

They need to cancel more flights. All carriers.

[roamer65]

14. Omicron is wiggling through the cracks in the system.

As a biologist, I hafta say I admire the fight in this virus.

Virology 101 for the masses.

[Ms. Toad]

16. It's too early to tell about Omicron -

28 days is the minium to start talking about lethality - and it was identfied fewer than 28 days ago.

It's not just the unvaccinated. It's ALSO the vaccinated who aren't wearing masks, who are ignoring symptoms that seem like colds, allergies or a headache (because of the myth that breakthrough cases are rare), and who are eating indoors with people they don't live with, who have to go out to finish shopping (even though they have symptoms), who have to take their exams (and take a rapid test after exposing their peers), etc.

[former9thward]

19. So is the NYC subway system.

Why has that not been halted? No ventilation to speak of and people jammed in the cars.

[Haggard Celine]

24. Good question.

There are probably at least as many people coming into contact with the virus on city transit as on airplanes. People are often packed onto city trains, trolleys, buses, etc. Some cities might require some distancing, but as transmissible as Omicron is, I doubt that distancing makes a lot of difference. I just don't understand these people who won't get vaccinated, yet are willing to get on public transportation. It's like a sort of death wish.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

28. More people actually on the subway

Was curious and looked it up, NYC Subway actually had more passengers than all of domestic air travel:

12/22/2021
Subway: 2,635,760
Air travel: 2,081,297

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput
https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership

[Haggard Celine]

29. That's amazing!

The number of people packed into that relatively small area boggles my mind. I've never been to NYC, but I hope to visit one day. I wonder what the figures are for all public transit in the U.S. It seems to me that it will be hard to avoid catching Omicron, considering how transmissible it is. It's going to spread in the larger cities like wildfire. Looks like everybody is going to get some strain of Covid eventually.

[helpisontheway]

15. Our flight to Florida was canceled on Tuesday. We were supposed to fly

back on Christmas Eve. I did not think it was a good idea once the numbers started increasing. However, I hated to cancel because we promised our son months ago. However, I think everything happens for a reason. I’m very relieved and now getting under my covid rock again. I’m staying home. I hope cases decrease some before our son returns to campus in a few weeks.

[Willis88]

18. Any word on American Airlines?

I'm flying after Christmas and I have a sinking feeling that American may be next to announce cancellations.

[W T F]

21. They are canceling because they don't have enough flight crews. They don't get paid any premium..........

For flying during the holidays so everyone calls in sick.

[Haggard Celine]

25. I don't blame them.

They should be getting double time on Christmas and New Years. I hate people's plans are going to be disrupted, but good for the workers!

[womanofthehills]

23. Airlines want isolation lowered from 10 to 5 days with a test

I read that most of the pilots currently working have maxed out their hours.

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