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by 8DonCo Mon May 16, 2022 8:42 am
A severe pilot shortage in the U.S. leaves airlines scrambling for solutions
The Covid pandemic halted pilot hiring as training and licensing slowed. Airlines handed out early retirement packages to thousands of pilots and other employees aimed to cut labor bills when travel demand cratered during the depths of crisis.
“I feel like I walked away at the pinnacle,” said one former captain for a major U.S. airline who took an early retirement package in 2020.
Now airlines are desperate to hire and train pilots, but the rush may take too long to avoid flight cuts.
Major U.S. airlines are trying to hire more than 12,000 pilots combined this year alone, more than double the previous record in annual hiring, according to Kit Darby, a pilot pay consultant and a retired United captain.
The shortage is particularly acute at regional carriers that feed major airlines’ hubs from smaller cities. While hiring and retention bonuses have returned at those airlines, pay is lower there than at majors, and they are recruiting aggressively from those smaller carriers.
Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, which flies for American and United, lost nearly $43 million in the last quarter as flight cuts mounted.
“We never fathomed attrition levels like this,” said Mesa CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “If we don’t fly our airplanes we lose money. You saw our quarterly numbers.”
It takes Mesa an estimated 120 days to replace a pilot who gives two weeks’ notice to go to another airline, according to Ornstein.
“We could use 200 pilots right now,” he said.
Some carriers like Frontier and regional airline SkyWest are recruiting pilots from Australia under a special visa to help ease the shortfall, but the numbers are small compared with their overall ranks and hiring goals.
Regional carrier Republic Airways, which flies for American, Delta and United, last month petitioned the U.S. government to allow pilots to fly for the airline with 750 hours, half of the 1,500 currently required, if they go through the carrier’s training program. There are already exemptions to the 1,500-hour rule, such as for U.S.-military trained pilots and those who attend two- and four-year programs that include flight training.
Roots of the crisis
The Covid pandemic halted pilot hiring as training and licensing slowed. Airlines handed out early retirement packages to thousands of pilots and other employees aimed to cut labor bills when travel demand cratered during the depths of crisis.
“I feel like I walked away at the pinnacle,” said one former captain for a major U.S. airline who took an early retirement package in 2020.
Now airlines are desperate to hire and train pilots, but the rush may take too long to avoid flight cuts.
Major U.S. airlines are trying to hire more than 12,000 pilots combined this year alone, more than double the previous record in annual hiring, according to Kit Darby, a pilot pay consultant and a retired United captain.
The shortage is particularly acute at regional carriers that feed major airlines’ hubs from smaller cities. While hiring and retention bonuses have returned at those airlines, pay is lower there than at majors, and they are recruiting aggressively from those smaller carriers.
Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, which flies for American and United, lost nearly $43 million in the last quarter as flight cuts mounted.
“We never fathomed attrition levels like this,” said Mesa CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “If we don’t fly our airplanes we lose money. You saw our quarterly numbers.”
It takes Mesa an estimated 120 days to replace a pilot who gives two weeks’ notice to go to another airline, according to Ornstein.
“We could use 200 pilots right now,” he said.
Some carriers like Frontier and regional airline SkyWest are recruiting pilots from Australia under a special visa to help ease the shortfall, but the numbers are small compared with their overall ranks and hiring goals.
Regional carrier Republic Airways, which flies for American, Delta and United, last month petitioned the U.S. government to allow pilots to fly for the airline with 750 hours, half of the 1,500 currently required, if they go through the carrier’s training program. There are already exemptions to the 1,500-hour rule, such as for U.S.-military trained pilots and those who attend two- and four-year programs that include flight training.
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Re: Đuổi người giờ kím không có
by LoveStory08 Mon May 16, 2022 10:40 am
I hope they dont start hiring underqualified pilots—chet nguoi hehe
LoveStory08
Re: Đuổi người giờ kím không có
by ga10 Mon May 16, 2022 10:47 am
To survive during the pandemic, Airlines had no choice but to layoff & offering attractive packages for people to retire. My company also dealt with the airlines industry and we had to lay off some people and asked employées to get paycut or work reduced schedules. Chứ lúc đó 0 có incoming revenues/money thì lấy đâu tiền trả cho nhân viên rồi phải file bankruptcy sao?
Ngay cả như sau khi xin được tiền trợ cấp của chính phủ cũng 0 dám mướn người lại bởi vì đâu biết COVID sẽ last bao lâu cho nên phải ráng xài tiền grant/loan dè dặt.
Bây giờ volumes increased lại nhưng 0 mướn được người. Thêm vào nhiều tiểu bang increase minimum wages which cause the dominoes effect phải trả lương cao hơn cho mấy đứa ở trên vì họ có kinh nghiệm hơn mấy đứa trả minimum.
Có nhiều locations thiếu người hảng tui phải fly employees from another states to go work there and we incurred a lot of extra ẽxpenses like flights and lodgings for them which caused us to overrun our budget as well. It's still an uphill battle for us eventhough volumes are increasing.
Ngay cả như sau khi xin được tiền trợ cấp của chính phủ cũng 0 dám mướn người lại bởi vì đâu biết COVID sẽ last bao lâu cho nên phải ráng xài tiền grant/loan dè dặt.
Bây giờ volumes increased lại nhưng 0 mướn được người. Thêm vào nhiều tiểu bang increase minimum wages which cause the dominoes effect phải trả lương cao hơn cho mấy đứa ở trên vì họ có kinh nghiệm hơn mấy đứa trả minimum.
Có nhiều locations thiếu người hảng tui phải fly employees from another states to go work there and we incurred a lot of extra ẽxpenses like flights and lodgings for them which caused us to overrun our budget as well. It's still an uphill battle for us eventhough volumes are increasing.
ga10
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