Tue Nov 2, 2021 – 4:37 pm EDTTue Nov 2, 2021 – 4:49 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — American Airlines canceled more than 12% of its flights over the weekend, citing “weather” and “staffing” issues amid ongoing unrest over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees.
“With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up out of their regular flight sequences,” CNN quotes an American representative as saying about the cancellation of 634 flights Sunday and a total of more than 1,500 since Friday.
CNN cites complications caused by “two days of severe winds in Dallas-Fort Worth, its largest hub,” as well as “buyouts and early retirement packages” offered to employees last year as a pandemic cost-cutting measure, but neglects to mention another factor: American’s assurance to President Joe Biden that it would comply with the administration’s not-yet-implemented vaccine mandate.
It is “unacceptable that your administration is using the threat of contractual measures as a coercion to single out American workers in a vital national industry,” House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee ranking member Rep. Sam Graves and aviation subcommittee senior member Rep. Garrett Graves (no relation) told Biden in a
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