Dennis Prager Show - Are Airlines Not Caving To The Woke Mob?
Aired: 2024-02-07
Duration: 03:47


=== Pilot Group Held Out (03:46) ===

[00:00:01]  Indiana and Jerry, hello.
[00:00:05]  Hey, Dennis.
[00:00:06]  Thank you for letting me in.
[00:00:09]  I'm an unvaccinated, non-DEI hired commercial airline pilot.
[00:00:17]  How did you get away with not getting vaccinated?
[00:00:22]  Our company finally folded and allowed all the exemptions to go through.
[00:00:28]  Would you be willing to say which company?
[00:00:32]  I'm sorry, I can't.
[00:00:35]  Is it a big company?
[00:00:38]  Yes.
[00:00:40]  So one of the biggest airlines in the United States folded and did not demand that its pilots be vaccinated at a certain point.
[00:00:50]  Is that what you're telling me?
[00:00:52]  At a certain point, that is correct, because the pilot group held out, held out, held out.
[00:00:58]  All these threats coming in, and nobody would meet the deadlines to get your vax.
[00:01:04]  Besides, it's not a vax, it's a shot.
[00:01:06]  Why do they call it a flu shot and not a flu vaccine?
[00:01:10]  Anyway, so then we put in the exemptions to satisfy the feds.
[00:01:17]  They approved.
[00:01:20]  100%.
[00:01:21]  They said, we don't care what you worship, just go ahead and send an exemption, and we got you covered.
[00:01:27]  So, there you go.
[00:01:31]  Alright, so you called, though, to tell me about the new affirmative action issue, correct?
[00:01:37]  Yes.
[00:01:38]  Yes.
[00:01:39]  Okay, so I'm going to tell you right off.
[00:01:41]  Okay, I got a couple of years left before I have to retire because of my age.
[00:01:47]  So I've been around for about 35 years, and I was the primary flight instructor in the Air Force.
[00:01:52]  I served 20 years there.
[00:01:54]  Over the last six months to a year, there's been a huge surge of hiring at the airlines, and they're taking in whatever they can.
[00:02:03]  And then coupled with this DEI business, they're trying to meet a certain metric.
[00:02:08]  Okay, well, I will tell you, 95% of the new hires that I've been experiencing are doing pretty good.
[00:02:18]  But you got the five percenters that you're like, how did this person get through the training?
[00:02:23]  And I had one of those experiences, and I felt like I had to teach the guy how to fly basic airplane pills.
[00:02:34]  And the company finally decided to spend more money to train this guy, but in the end, he could not cut it, and they let him go.
[00:02:44]  But it took a lot of money and a lot of training, a lot of effort to get this person through because they wanted that DEI higher.
[00:02:52]  And that was your company?
[00:02:55]  Yes.
[00:02:56]  Okay, well, that's what they're saying.
[00:03:02]  Look, I'm happy it's 95%.
[00:03:04]  The problem is 5% is not a small sum.
[00:03:07]  I mean, obviously we don't have a scientific study on this, but if 5% of the future pilots, Are not competent.
[00:03:17]  That's a very dangerous thing.
[00:03:22]  You want 100% of your pilots competent.
[00:03:25]  We haven't had a major airline crash, what, in how many years?
[00:03:29]  I mean, it's really been remarkable.
[00:03:31]  But United has announced that merit will not be its only criterion.
[00:03:45]  Race and gender.