Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Staffing shortages, flight delays snarl air travel" video.

  1. It's amazing the number of morons, blaming Biden, for a world wide shortage of pilots, due to airlines letting pilots go in 2020.
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  2. No, the big story is not the miniscule number of people with protected status, it is all the people, in Europe, North America, and the middle east, who book flights, and get stranded due to a lack of pilots. The big story is, the airlines took in billions and billions of euros, dollars, pounds, riyals and shekels, from their respective governments, to see them over the pandemic, and they still let most of their employees go. Now that air travel has resumed, they don't have enough pilots, flight attendants, or crew on the ground, for the airlines to run efficiently. What happened to all the money, that was supposed to prevent this?
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  3. The shortages are real, and due to coercing many pilots, and others, to take early retirement in 2020. Now that vaccine, masking, and testing mandates are gone, many people want to fly again. And there aren't enough pilots, or other staff to handle the demand. What I'd like to know is, where did all the dollars, euros, pounds, riyals and shekels, given to airlines to prevent firing of needed personnel, go? Just because you know two people, who want to be flight attendants, means nothing if airlines don't have enough pilots. Without a pilot, an airliner is just a crowded restaurant. Tell your friends to learn to fly.
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  4. Masks, vaccination and Covid-19 tests haven't been required for months. A lot of people found alternative employment, and are unwilling to return.
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  5.  @mhall801  Why are you thanking Biden, for layoffs, around the world, in 2020?
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  6. I have to travel, because of family concerns, to Israel in three weeks. I booked on British Airlines, because they have the best cancellation compensation. Still, it will be a problem, if I get cancelled, because I have to assist someone with a surgery, that is being scheduled for after I arrive.
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  7. Also in Israel. Everywhere, there aren't enough pilots, and the ones being overworked go on strike.
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  8. The damage was done in 2020. Buttigieg was not Transportation Secretary then.
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  9. It is the vaccination mandates that should have been kept. You shouldn't be able to book a flight, without proving your vaccination status. That might keep the number of passengers down, until the airlines have enough time to re-staff.
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  10. They've been overbooking for decades.
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  11.  @davidkamen  A lot of pilots were encouraged to take early retirement, in 2020, and are still young enough to return.
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  12. It was not firing idiots, that refused to be vaccinated, that caused this. Most airlines let employees go in 2020, long before the vaccines were available. They did this, despite getting billions to keep people on staff. Where did the money go?
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  13. Nice that you like Ukraine and Zelensky. Disgusting that you pray for him in one of your g_ds' name. He's Jewish, pray to Hashem, not your false prophet.
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  14. True, and despite getting billions, to prevent laying pilots off, airlines convinced many to take early retirement. What happened to all the dollars, euros, pounds, riyals and shekels given to the airlines, to prevent what is happening?
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