The airlines should call Biden's bluff

Southwest Airlines has canceled more than 2,000 flights over the past 36 hours and wants customers to believe the meltdown was due to “bad weather” in Florida and air traffic issues. This is an obvious lie: No other airline in the region had to ground 25% of its flights, and last I checked, the weather doesn’t single out airlines.

The truth is likely a combination of factors: First, Southwest has been scheduling more flights than it could handle since June, and it is now running into a massive backlog. And second, the company’s staffing shortages are being exacerbated by its vaccine mandate, which was announced last week.