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MortgageHorn

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A little more info on what’s going on with SWA..

“My friend’s husband is a pilot with Southwest. He just posted this an hour ago. I’m not including his name or the photos he shared of packed SWA employee rooms at the airports over the past couple of days (in case his post comes back to bite him with the company—even though he’s stating facts.) He also posted a screenshot of a fellow pilot on hold with SWA Scheduling for over 22 hours. Anyway, here’s some insight for those wondering if this massive round of SWA cancellations is really all due to weather and staffing issues:

“I don’t know what to say. Southwest Airlines has imploded. Their antiquated software system has completely fried. Planes are parked. Crews are stranded in the airports with the passengers, volunteering to take the passengers in the parked planes but the software won’t accept it. Phone lines are overwhelmed for both passenger and crews. I personally spent over two hours trying to get ahold of anyone in the company last night after midnight. A Captain and I did manage to get the one flight put together on Christmas night and got people home. Kudos to the ops agent and dispatcher for making it happen. We had to manually input a lot of the data and it took over an hour to coordinate with dispatch going back and forth running numbers.

We spent hours trying to get the company to answer and get us a hotel when we landed as they’re all sold out. We were only put in a call que for hours before hanging up. I found one hotel with 4 rooms and we bought our own rooms at 2:30am. I even paid for a Flight Attendants room. We literally have crews sleeping on the airport floors all over the country with nowhere to go. Crews have been calling to fly anyone, anywhere, but the company says the system needs a reset. They have effectively shut down the operations for the rest of year, running 1/3 of the flights so that they can let the computer find and locate the crews and aircraft. Gate agents are in tears. They’ve been yelled at, cussed at, slapped and spit on. Flight attendants have been taking a beating. The frontline employees have had little support or communication. Terminals are standing room only with people having been there for days. Pilot lounges are packed with pilots ready to fly and nowhere to go.

Embarrassing is an understatement. I’m going on my second of three days off, still stuck on the east coast and still expected to show up in the morning with no schedule. And I’m willing to fly all day if needed. Because that’s nothing compared to the passengers needing meds in bags that are lost and mothers traveling with kids, having been stuck for the same amount of days in the terminal. In 24 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. Heads need to roll! Rumors on media are floating that there is a lack of crews and pilots are staging sick calls. Absolutely not true at all. This is a computer system meltdown. Thousands of crew members are sitting in hotels and airports with nowhere to go. This airline has failed miserably.”
 

22*43*51

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Looks a lot like Texas drivers. These dumbasses will drive on ice or wet roads like it's mid-summer with no rain for weeks.
Lived in east Texas in the late 90’s and can confirm.

Experienced one light icing. Never seen so many people double foot stomp brakes and not undstand that you turn in to a slide to correct it, not away.
 
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atlrichkid

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sad truth is he's right. Not because there isn't damning information, related to "the big guy", or the fact that most would agree trump would be in office if the laptop wasn't buried before the election, or that Biden lied about business dealings with his son. It's that they just don't care. Most rational americans would say we need to look into this. Dude is already passing judgement, and nothing has even been investigated yet. Meanwhile Trumps tax returns and every other facet of his life has been turned upside down
 

Hoosier in Mad Town

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That is an excellent clip that gets right at the absurd monetary system

I'd be curious to hear more specifics on who the "United States" is

So you believe fauci was given the public spotlight and reigns over the country against his will to ultimately induce the fall of the diabolical poison system people call healthcare?

Or he was tricked into making a name for himself which somehow means q is dismantling big pharma?
I don't think it was against Fauci's will, but rather against a discipline he maintained for most of his career.

Tony Fauci wasn't a household name until 2020, yet he'd been in his position for 25 years.

The public had to understand who he was and what role NAID plays in the system. That was accomplished via the COVID response.

If you take out Big Pharma, but leave the research and health system infrastructure in place, you will simply see a new generation of Big Pharma emerge and the game continues. Gotta get that tick out by the head.

Related to original post from yesterday: https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...italE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter
 

FreeMiner

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Tom Hickey says

27 December 2022 at 22:13

My take is somewhat different. The problem is that now this is in effect WWIII. For example, the US (CIA) reportedly has operatives inside Russia acting as saboteurs blowing up stuff with provided munitions. Moreover, Russia (and others) are on to the intention of the US to succeed where Napoleon and Hitler ventured and lost, and Russian leaders are saying this publicly.
Neither side can afford to lose. If Russia is defeated it is Balkanized. If the US gets defeated it is the end of the American Empire, the end of NATO, and the possible dissolution of the EU as a project to unite Europe. So it is a fight to the finish.
This is the case even if some “peace deal” is negotiated in Ukraine. The US elite has decided to finish Russia and China now and dismember them before they get stronger. In other words, they see the window closing on their ability to do this. The target is China and the strategy is to get Russia out of the way first, since taking on Russia and China simultaneously is likely already beyond the capability of the US and its allies.
So either way it goes nuclear.

 

MVTPatriot

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I don't think it was against Fauci's will, but rather against a discipline he maintained for most of his career.

Tony Fauci wasn't a household name until 2020, yet he'd been in his position for 25 years.

The public had to understand who he was and what role NAID plays in the system. That was accomplished via the COVID response.

If you take out Big Pharma, but leave the research and health system infrastructure in place, you will simply see a new generation of Big Pharma emerge and the game continues. Gotta get that tick out by the head.

Related to original post from yesterday: https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...italE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter

I’m also of the position they by trump fast tracking the vaccine, he effectively took away the lockdowns. No vaccine, we are still in lockdown.
Now some may think, how could he do that knowing many would die? My guess is that it’s the lesser of two evils. He had to make a move.
Exposing Fauci was critical.
 

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A little more info on what’s going on with SWA..

“My friend’s husband is a pilot with Southwest. He just posted this an hour ago. I’m not including his name or the photos he shared of packed SWA employee rooms at the airports over the past couple of days (in case his post comes back to bite him with the company—even though he’s stating facts.) He also posted a screenshot of a fellow pilot on hold with SWA Scheduling for over 22 hours. Anyway, here’s some insight for those wondering if this massive round of SWA cancellations is really all due to weather and staffing issues:

“I don’t know what to say. Southwest Airlines has imploded. Their antiquated software system has completely fried. Planes are parked. Crews are stranded in the airports with the passengers, volunteering to take the passengers in the parked planes but the software won’t accept it. Phone lines are overwhelmed for both passenger and crews. I personally spent over two hours trying to get ahold of anyone in the company last night after midnight. A Captain and I did manage to get the one flight put together on Christmas night and got people home. Kudos to the ops agent and dispatcher for making it happen. We had to manually input a lot of the data and it took over an hour to coordinate with dispatch going back and forth running numbers.

We spent hours trying to get the company to answer and get us a hotel when we landed as they’re all sold out. We were only put in a call que for hours before hanging up. I found one hotel with 4 rooms and we bought our own rooms at 2:30am. I even paid for a Flight Attendants room. We literally have crews sleeping on the airport floors all over the country with nowhere to go. Crews have been calling to fly anyone, anywhere, but the company says the system needs a reset. They have effectively shut down the operations for the rest of year, running 1/3 of the flights so that they can let the computer find and locate the crews and aircraft. Gate agents are in tears. They’ve been yelled at, cussed at, slapped and spit on. Flight attendants have been taking a beating. The frontline employees have had little support or communication. Terminals are standing room only with people having been there for days. Pilot lounges are packed with pilots ready to fly and nowhere to go.

Embarrassing is an understatement. I’m going on my second of three days off, still stuck on the east coast and still expected to show up in the morning with no schedule. And I’m willing to fly all day if needed. Because that’s nothing compared to the passengers needing meds in bags that are lost and mothers traveling with kids, having been stuck for the same amount of days in the terminal. In 24 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. Heads need to roll! Rumors on media are floating that there is a lack of crews and pilots are staging sick calls. Absolutely not true at all. This is a computer system meltdown. Thousands of crew members are sitting in hotels and airports with nowhere to go. This airline has failed miserably.”
My SIL/daughter/GBaby are driving from Virginia Beach because their SA flights were canceled.
 

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