Delta Airlines announces it is ditching vaccine mandates for employees!

Employees from major airlines are preparing to shut down operations.

ATLANTA, Georgia (PNN) - October 17, 2021 - Delta Airlines’ CEO Ed Bastian appeared on Fox Business on Saturday and explained why the airline that he leads will respect employees’ personal health decisions and not enforce a vaccine mandate.

“We’re proving that you can work collaboratively with your people, trusting your people to make the right decisions, respecting their decisions, and not forcing them over the loss of their jobs,” Delta’s CEO said.

Delta is the only major airline that has not mandated that its employees be vaccinated for COVID-19. The airline says it has an approximate 90% vaccination rate already, and expects this to increase to 95% in November.

“Mandate is only one way to get people vaccinated,” Bastian said. “It’s a very blunt instrument.”

Southwest Airlines recently faced major operational disruption that compelled its CEO to announce that he would not be firing employees over the vaccine mandate.

“We are not going to fire any employees over this,” Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said.

“This is a government mandate, it’s a presidential order, and we’re doing our best to comply with that according to the deadlines that have been set,” said the uninformed Kelly; there has been no executive order or other official mandate issued by the federal government.

“I’ve never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate, I’m not in favor of that, never have been,” Kelly said. “But the (nonexistent) executive order from (pretender Joe) Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors (no such order exists), which covers all major airlines, have to have a vaccine mandate in place by December 8. So we’re working through that.”

While the federal vaccine mandate was announced in September, it has not yet been formally issued by the illegitimate Biden regime. The uncertainty has caused many corporations to preemptively comply with the vaccine order, even though the unannounced regulations would conflict with some state laws.

Southwest Airlines employees are reportedly organizing a peaceful protest, and American Airlines recently appeared to take a page out of the Southwest playbook by causing the airline major disruption.

On Wednesday, American Airlines saw at least 251 flight cancellations and 616 flight delays, the majority of them at the airport in Dallas-Fort Worth. The unusual surge in American Airlines flight cancellations and delays came less than a week after an organized protest at the company’s headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.

Hundreds of AA workers and allies protested outside the company’s Fort Worth, Texas headquarters. The protesters said that they are skeptical of the vaccines’ effectiveness and their unreported side effects.

The protestors were a mix of employees from across the airline including pilots, gate agents and ramp workers. Some wore their uniforms, while their numbers were swelled by friends and family who supported their right to reject the vaccine.

Currently, Boeing workers are conducting a major strike against the vaccine mandates and reportedly won’t return to work until they are overturned.

There may be even more transportation disruption ahead as 40% of TSA workers are unvaccinated. Truck drivers and dock workers around the world are threatening to go on strike and cause further supply chain chaos.

Delta Airlines’ CEO read the writing on the wall and wisely decided to allow employees a say in their own health decisions. But for major corporations that decide to violate their employees’ health rights, there are all the signs that major pushback awaits them directly ahead.