Pilots

Southern Airways Express is partnering with Wheels Up in hopes to retain experienced pilots by giving them a defined career progression path.

The FAA announced on Thursday it will establish a Pilot Mental Health Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) to address the issue.

A downturn in demand has prompted Fedex to tell its pilots to go fly at a regional airline, which is offering lucrative signing bonuses.

Even if automated, having extra backups can guide pilots through critical phases of flight, especially during various approach conditions.

A pilot shortage has quickly pivoted more to a captain shortage as many airlines struggle to fill vacancies and upgrade first officers.

British Airways is making a bid to attract new aviators as a worsening pilot shortage looms.

United is the latest U.S. airline to etch an AIP with its pilots.

Regional carrier SkyWest Airlines has unveiled a new $70,100 training bond for foreign-based pilots hired at the company, Aero Crew News reports. The bond, which applies only to foreign pilots hired through a yet-unnamed firm, will require each new hire to commit to employment at SkyWest until they have completed 2,000 Pilot-In-Command (PIC) hours at […]

Canada’s WestJet and Swoop airlines cancelled over 200 flights in response to an industrial dispute with 1800 pilots. CBC News reports that 92 flights due to operate on Thursday were cancelled in addition to strategic cancellations already made by the airline ahead of the long holiday weekend. “We are extremely disheartened to find ourselves in […]

As airlines in North America are shrugging off the horrible months of the pandemic and balance sheets start looking rosier again, all the issues that had been put aside to survive the most devastating crisis commercial aviation has ever encountered are now resurfacing and calling for a solution. On Oct. 31, the overwhelming majority of […]