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Old Dec 24, 2021, 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by uanj
To be fair, DL has canceled almost as many and the root cause is Omicro's high transmissability along with the current requirement of 10 day isolation after testing positive.
That's UA's pitch. If it were true, you'd expect to see same across all the majors. Yet AA has 11 cancels thus far today compared to 176 for UA.

It was reported in VFTW that the real cause is the number of religious exemptions from vaccination requirement, particularly among 737 pilots.
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