650 unvaccinated AA Flight Attendants, he said, refused to report for work this weekend after receiving text messages demanding they get jabbed ahead of their scheduled flights. “Comply or face indefinite furlough,” the text said.

Unvaccinated pilots took a similar stance after they, too, got messages that threatened their livelihoods. Eighty-four pilots on Saturday refused to fly after AA insisted that they get vaccinated.

Meanwhile, an alarming number of vaccinated pilots have died at the flight stick. Last week, RRN reported on the mid-flight deaths of two AA pilots who keeled over at 32,000ft.