Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Agreed, the spin is getting out of control. The callouts last week were only showing an increase of 1-2%, this week is probably going to be about the same, maybe 3% or so. We have not had the mass exodus that I keep hearing about at any news source reporting on this.
If the situation endures for an extended period of time, I do anticipate that they will trend upward. At some point, there will be enough people that are simply out of money that it will create a larger impact, but that time is not now.
The increase in absentee levels was not 1-2%. The absentee level has increase multiple times higher than 1-2% above from what it was in the first week of January last year.
An increase of 1-2% from a comparable period would be something like a 1% absentee rate going to 1.1% or 1.2%. Going from a 1-2% absentee rate to a 3% absentee rate is a 50+% increase in the absentee rate. Personally, I find the industrial action that is going on with the German screeners at some airports to be more disruptive than what I'm experiencing with whatever TSA delays may be attributable in part to TSA absentee rates having risen during the federal government shutdown.