United Airlines To Require Employee Vax

From the WSJ:

United Airlines to Require All U.S. Employees Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19

United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL -0.72% will require its 67,000 U.S. employees to be vaccinated this fall, the first major airline to take this step as the Delta variant drives a nationwide increase in Covid-19 infections.

Airlines including United have so far tried to encourage workers to be vaccinated voluntarily, with incentives such as bonus pay or extra vacation.

In a letter to employees Friday, Chief Executive Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart said they expected that some would disagree with the decision but said the move was necessary to keep workers safe.

“The facts are crystal clear: everyone is safer when everyone is vaccinated,” the executives wrote. “Over the last 16 months, Scott has sent dozens of condolences letters to the family members of United employees who have died from COVID-19. We’re determined to do everything we can to try to keep another United family from receiving that letter.”

Hmm. Delta is ready when you are? Other employers remain up in the air?

 

Comments

[Jane]

I win!

[Melinda]

Per usual!

[Comanche Voter]

Mooove it along. The corporate C suite cattle rush to join the herd.

[Jane]

Clarice,

I was reading about Walinsky a few days ago. She seems amazingly unqualified for her job.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Peter Principle in effect, Jane.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Hmm. Delta is ready when you are? Other employers remain up in the air?

Nice pun, TM:)

[Narciso]

what explains the slow as molasses flight schedule, are they going back to the biplane era,

[Narciso]

the rest of the story

https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/05/call-the-covid-hysteria-what-it-is/

[Narciso]

this is the tenor of my fishwrap

https://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/08/fit-and-healthy-anti-vaxxer-dies-of.html

[Melinda]

EXC: A Chinese Communist-Linked Group Is Partnering With American Schools To ‘Transform Education’ With ‘Social Justice’.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/asia-society-ccp-effort-pushing-social-justice/

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Narc, thousands of pilots retired during the shutdown and now they don't have enough pilots to fly routes. They are an estimated 70K pilots short over the next 10 years.

Several friends traveling have reported flight cancels due to no pilots available... from ATLANTA. Not a small hub.

[Melinda]

And while we're at it....

NEWS
REVEALED: Chinese Communists Subsidized Trips For Western Journalists For Over 25 Years – CNN, NPR, WaPo, NYT, Reuters, ABC, NBC & More.

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/exc-ccp-journalism-exchange-program-to-enhance-understanding/

Bet they all got individual handlers when they were done, too.

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1423670819310419971

[Narciso]

Thanks steph.

[jimmyk]

Not sure I buy Lisa Schiffren's argument that the Ds are going after Cuomo to eliminate him from the nomination in 2024. For whom? I'm sure Letitia James wants him gone so she can run for governor, but I don't seem him as a strong presidential candidate. Even if he got off on the nursing home deaths he's damaged goods. I don't think the Dems have a plan for 2024 yet.

And as evil as the Dems are, I'm not convinced they intentionally murdered those old folks just to take down Trump. They were going to destroy the economy anyway and play up the panic. But they are guilty of extreme negligence and should pay a price. Since they won't do so in court, we have to hope it's at the ballot box.

[clarice]

I agree, jimmy.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Discussing airlines, I went back in my time machine to remember all the airlines that no longer exist that I had flown on. I know I am missing a few but so far this is my list:

Airlines that don’t exist anymore that I flew on:

Braniff

North Central later Republic

Midwest

TWA

Northwest Orient

Northeast

National

Southern later merged with North Central

Pan Am

BTW, Midwest was the best. Even served steak and lobster for dinner. Owned by Kimberley Clark and the only route was DC to Milwaukee.

[Neo]

Biden says "over 350 million Americans have been vaccinated"
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1423670823328563200

Must include some aliens, maybe some extraterrestrial aliens since there are only 330 to 340 million Americans

[clarice]

Midwest was the best..big leather seats, nice food. In its prime, Pan Am was great

[henry]

About time. Thread

@maciverwisc

Breaking news - Assembly Campaigns comm Chair St. Rep. Brandtjen announces that committee has issued "subpoenas for election materials from Milwaukee & Brown counties" and was done to advance the "top-to-bottom investigation" of '20 Presidential election. More to follow...

https://twitter.com/maciverwisc/status/1423682907152044044?s=21

[henry]

All those airlines were better than Piedmont.

[henry]

Didn’t see Ozark on the list either.

[henry]

Where’s a judge blocking the eviction ban? Why do we give any credibility to courts / judges? They are just puppets.

@WSJ

An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates after lawmakers left the prohibition in place despite a rising number of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations

[Narciso]

he's a circuit judge, who ran for the supreme court and lost, whoopie do

[Neo]

Arizona state senator arrested after "breakthrough case" of COVID-19 and alleged sex act with a minor, but mostly the sex acts.
https://www.azfamily.com/news/state-senator-arrested-for-suspected-sexual-conduct-with-child-in-phoenix/article_ed0e83fe-f670-11eb-a102-2b853eab6069.html

[Melinda]

Waring Air.

[Narciso]

do tell

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/04/cdcs-eviction-mortarium-is-almost-certainly-illegal/

[Melinda]

Well that's another one that's going to be hard to explain away....

Liz Harrington
@realLizUSA
Nothing to see here! Just more votes tha voters in 15 out of 17 Nevada counties

silverstatetimes.com/stories/606414…

https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1423674573116018688

[Jack Lillywhite]

Piedmont and Ozark can be added but not Waring.

The funniest flight attendants I ever flew with were the ones on Northeast.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

We had Air Cal, PSA and Western Airlines out here. For many years the hangar next to the on ramp at LAX still had the Western logo long after they were gone.

For years I had a promo piece from PSA advertising $19 flights to and from the Bay Area.

[Jack Lillywhite]

One time I was flying Pan Am to Singapore via Tokyo and we had a passenger suffer a heart attack and they divereted to Honolulu. They had to put us up in hotels. Mine was on the beach in a large suite with 12 foot high ceiling and huge plate glass window. But beggars can't be chooser's.

[Melinda]

Waring Air pilots knew how to dodge potholes.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Anyone used to fly ValuJet?

[Sammy Small]

Hughes Air West
Eastern
Muse

[Sammy Small]

Many airlines over expanded under deregulation starting about 1978. When the crunch hit in 1980, everyone started cutting back and merging. I was interviewing several airlines at the time. One week they were hiring and starting new pilot orientation classes, and the next week they were laying off personnel. Crazy times.

[henry]

Now it’s official. Your 401k / IRA just went woke. Prepare to be broke.

@cnbc

SEC approves Nasdaq's plan to boost diversity on corporate boards

[Melinda]

ISS applies its pressure from its largest member, Uncle Larry.

[henry]

Melinda, now with Govt assistance.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Sammy Small,

Thanks. Forgot Eastern.

As Frank Borman would say, “Come on down”!

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! Northeast Airlines! I said to hubby, somewhere in the countless boxes of photos we packed this summer, there is a picture of you and your sister getting on a Northeast Airlines plane at Logan, returning to PQI. He couldn't remember,so he called his sister. She thinks they had gone (in the car) to Boston with their parents (their father had a meeting) and then took a flight back to northern Maine. Their older brother probably took the picture. He was in grad school in Boston.

[henry]

Sinking polls? Moar free shit!

@cnbc

Biden administration extends payment pause for student loan borrowers through January

[Marlene]

Anyone remember People's Express? One of hubby's other sisters lived in Marco Island with her boyfriend. She was a home health care nurse and he was selling condos. In 1983, we took People's Express from PWM to SRQ. Ha. What a trip! Passengers were bringing their bicycles on the plane. His sister picked up us at the airport and I believe we took U.S. 41 to Naples. I-75 wasn't completed yet? Those were the days of "square grouper" (ahem) and I remember going to a restaurant and having a tense exchange between hubby and SIL's boyfriend and a sketchy character. :)

[Jack Lillywhite]

Wasn't Trump involved with People's Express or am I thinking of someone else?

[jimmyk]

Between NY and Boston we had NY Air, and IIRC Apple Air. One of those, or maybe it was People Express, charged $24 for the one way between NYC and BOS, and people paid cash on board, the flight attendants going up and down the aisle. And they'd give you a bagel and cream cheese.

[jimmyk]

I guess there wasn't an Apple Air, just that NY Air had an Apple logo, and Apple club, etc. This was before the days of Apple Computer.

[Thomas Collins]

Eastern Airlines had a Hartford to Boston route. Up and down very quickly.

[Melinda]

Now tell me it's "Delta" again.

"CDC Admitted They Have No Delta Variant Test"

https://silview.media/2021/08/05/cdc-admitted-they-have-no-delta-variant-test-and-somehow-its-not-viral-yet/

[clarice]

jimmy K NY Air had a similar deal $29 from DC. We used to go once a month, see a couple of plays, eat at nice restaurants and fly home.

[Jane]

https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/06/september-11-joe-biden-department-of-justice-fbi-saudi-arabia/

GOOD! 9-11 families tell Biden not to come to this year’s events!

[Neo]

The pause on federal student loan payments has been extended until January 31, 2022.

According to the latest federal data, a total of 500,000 borrowers (about 1.16% of all 42.9 million federal loan borrowers) continued making payments during the pause. 

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I remember Piedmont. Used to fly it down south. Will never forget a flight in a Mitsubishi YS-11 turboprop in the middle of a thunderstorm. One of the few times I wondered if we were going to get down safely.

[henry]

Matt, had a few of those rides. Didn’t help that the pilot was too young to shave. :0

[Jack Lillywhite]

Uh, Oh. Frederick has competition:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor

[Jack Lillywhite]

Just now. Outside my terrace:

[matt - deplore me if you must]

My brother did a couple of thousand hours flying commuters in Florida and California before he hired on with the big airline.

Flying around in and through some of that nasty Florida weather would, I imagine, be pretty good preparation for almost every kind of condition except ice and snow.

[Melinda]

Really? That's like tying me to the comfy chair.

The🐰FOO
@PolitiBunny
In other words, a cold. We know.

The Hill @thehill
The delta variant of COVID-19 can have symptoms that are more mild and typically not associated with the virus that some may mistake the illness as allergies or another common sickness. hill.cm/O3y7W5e

https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1423783895284293634

[Jack Lillywhite]

Matt,

Hard to fly in Florida and not meet iffy weather, lightning, thunder and shear winds. One reason why the top flight schools are here.

[John S]

why hasn't anyone mentioned the Trump Shuttle?

[John S]

Reading the NYT article about his purchase of the Eastern Shuttle in 1989, Trump sounds exactly like he does today. "I'm going to create the greatest airline in the world." "I'm going to write the advertising copy. etc. Very vintage Trump.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

He is an ERAU graduate.

[Jack Lillywhite]

matt, down the sreet from me. Frederick did 3 summer camps there.

[clarice]

via Insty:https://jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone080621.php

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1423757690896101378

[Dave (in MA)]

https://twitter.com/OntWtf/status/1423754494828060673

Damn. Last time there was that many wieners flying through the air it was Intern Orientation Day at Barney Frank's office.

— I ❤ Uranus (@Cobrastang3) August 6, 2021

[MissMarple2]

Enjoyed the airline recollections. I still remember the Pan Am stewardess uniforms! Flew Pan Am to Germany in 1967. From Frankfurt to West Berlin I flew Atlantis (a German charter line which I thought had a strange name).

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

IIRC AnotherBarb was a stewardess for PanAm or Transamerica back in the days of it being a BIG DEAL to be a stewardess.

[MissMarple2]

This is what happens when democrats run your city and funnel money to NGO's for crime prevention:

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/indianapolis-gave-100k-grant-to-non-profit-that-bailed-out-man-accused-of-killing-girlfriend

Stabbed her 51 times and attempted to dismember her.

[MissMarple2]

Good night, all!

[Melinda]

5/7/21

Cspan2 Michael Lewis.

Script.

Unbelievable.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

From MM's link;
"The Bail Project is among 26 groups awarded a taxpayer-funded violent crime-prevention grant."

Only in prog cuckoo land does putting violent criminals back on the street equal "violent crime prevention".

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--5/7/21

Cspan2 Michael Lewis.

Script.

Unbelievable.--

?

[Melinda]

Working on it….

[Melinda]

I’m looking for the whole thing. They were both working from a script.

https://youtu.be/LfW4VxNx_j4

[Melinda]

Boom, all of it is here :

https://youtu.be/eOgTZjoZqps

[jim nj]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9869959/John-Legend-Chrissy-Teigen-Dwyane-Wade-arrive-Marthas-Vineyard-Obamas-birthday-bash.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

EXCLUSIVE: Scaled back? Not so much! Obama's 60th birthday bash looks anything but intimate as massive tents dwarf the mansion and John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union arrive on Martha's Vineyard ahead of the celebration

That's a really big tent.

[Catsmeat]

One of my very favorite movies, a screwball comedy of the early 70s, What's Up, Doc?, ends in the San Fran airport at TWA gates and then on a TWA flight
(ostensibly to Ames, Iowa). The movie also features a VW floating in the bay, to mimic the popular commercial. The movie is wildly funny and much recommended.

[jim nj]

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/08/05/liberals-hate-that-you-have-rights-n2593564

[jim nj]

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/05/greg-abbott-puts-the-kibosh-on-the-texas-democrats-victory-lap-n422002

He'll convene a second special session on 8/7.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

John Legend? Chrissy Teigen?

Typical Obama has no clue they are on the outs with the woke crowd. Very far out. Poor Chrissy was bawling a few weeks ago about how could she grovel more on twitter to get back in the mob's good graces. LOL

[Narciso]

Lewis, lost so much of the plot, he fell off the back of the turtle,

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Hearing rumors that Taiwan is reporting that the Three Gorges actually broke. ???

[Narciso]

this is the story, they are going with,

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/2011-clip-of-tsunami-in-japan-incorrectly-shared-as-china-fact-check

[Narciso]

of course, one call tell the difference between a tsunami, which hits the coast, and a flood upriver,

[Narciso]

does bass, chang or waller, have anything on this?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Well I skipped ahead to about 4 minutes where the goof in the upper left said the CDC bungled things because they're underfunded.
Yeah...that's the problem; the CDC hasn't enough money or power.
Here's what the dicks will never admit - 90% of the bungling was what they're given credit for doing and had they not done any of it we'd have about the same number of deaths [whatever that actual number might be] but we'd also have our rights and not a destroyed economy and not an imbecilic, evil lunatic as president.
Lewis strikes me as jokingly arrogant to disguise his true arrogance.

[Narciso]

he didn't used to be this dim with liars poker, but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away,
he did have at least half of the story with the big short, there are so many books on this outbreak, that serve to be mulched, but that much burnt pulp could start a second ice age,

[Narciso]

too much over the top

https://www.revolver.news/2021/08/biden-camp-of-the-saints-us-mexico-border-illegal-immigration/

[Melinda]

Lewis answers to Bertelsmann, first.

But he got Google to admit, by and large, just what they’d paid for, over the last year.

[Davod]

Jimmyk. I got on a flight one day and the air hostess was throwing the breakfast foods at people.

[Melinda]

So, with the organized reservoir drainage in CA, plus the drought, computer chips can NOT be manufactured because the common, but absolutely necessary, coolant has disappeared. So lines in California get squeezed….

Coincidentally.

[Davod]

Jack. I must have flown Midwest a number of time on the way to Green Bay. Real china and cooked food.

[Melinda]

His Flash Boys was a map.

Then it ended, which splained a Lot.

[Pinandpuller]

Hey Cuh! The Lincoln Projects is mo’ dangerous than Cabrini Green, and twice as gay.

[Melinda]

Don’t skip on this one, Ig. She almost gloats over what they’d bought.

[Davod]

Dave (in MA). I will probably be trashed for saying this, but maybe that's fattening them up for the table.

[Narciso]

they're are mostly harmless, they delude themselves into otherwise, and didn't they tear down cabrini green,

[Melinda]

90% of Cabrini Green is gone. Squatters remain in the original 2 story units, the original design.

[Davod]

WTF does NASDAQ have to do with how companies organize their boards.

[Narciso]

one is reminded of what happened to constantinople after 1453, when they tore down the wall

[Melinda]

End of Hapsburgs is the better example.

i.e. Teller.