Alaska Airlines had nothing to say about Independence Day? Nothing at all? – Must Read Alaska

After a month of busy social media tales and movies about LGBTQ Delight Month and Juneteenth, Alaska Airways evidently had nothing to say concerning the Fourth of July. Or Independence Day, if you’ll. Or simply name it the birthday of america of America.

The corporate that serves Alaska and 115 locations with almost 1,200 each day flights in america, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, was stone chilly silent on America’s 246th birthday. Nothing on the corporate weblog, Twitter feed, Fb feed, or Membership 49. Oh, and nothing on the workers’ inner internet pages. There may be not a “Completely satisfied Independence Day!” message to be discovered from the airline that’s usually fairly on high of varied cultural occasions.

In June, the airline’s weblog featured smooth tales about feminine pilot and a feminine flight attendant getting engaged onboard. The airline festooned its social media accounts and weblog with the rainbow and produced documentary movies on the subject. Planes have been painted with themes of the rainbow. On June 30, the corporate took a glance again on all its occasions it had taken half in throughout Delight month, with this colourful social media put up:

One of many jets is a flying a Juneteenth theme, now that it has been made right into a federal vacation by President Joe Biden in 2020, giving federal employees 11 days a yr of vacation time. A weblog put up concerning the firm’s decimation to traditionally black faculties could be learn right here.

For Delight Month, one fortunate jet stuffed with Alaska Airways passengers en route from San Francisco acquired a free flight anyplace the corporate flies in a promotion that featured a video of a prancing and chanting promoters: “You say Homosexual!”

In 2020, the airline issued Black Lives Matter t-shirts and pins for its staff. BLM has turn into synonymous with corruption after its founders have been accused of misusing tens of millions of {dollars} in donations.

For almost two-and-a-half centuries, America has been the beacon to the world for freedom and democracy. Whereas not an ideal nation, the experiment in self-governance continues. This isn’t a vacation one merely forgets.

This yr, a number of outstanding celebrities have chosen to publicly boycott the Fourth of July in rebuke to the Supreme Court docket’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Following that court docket choice, Alaska Airways publicly promised to supply transportation to any worker who needs an abortion however who resides in a state the place such practices are disallowed.

Now, the corporate seems to have joined with celebrities in dismissing the nation’s birthday, and carrying on as if Monday was not, certainly, the nation’s oldest celebration that unites the individuals past faith, tradition and geography.