The White thing to do, and people actually clapped for him in the end. Ain't that just swell, a small vision of a functioning society. He'd rather potentially get people mad at him than risk lives. An upstanding man, that pilot.

I'd be happy to fly with him as pilot any day.

I get it. As a traveler, that would suck. But he's the captain and if his concerns are valid, then he made the right call.