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May 26, 2022 3:05 pm ET -
Alaska Airlines Points to Staffing Shortages As Carrier Pares Back…
Alaska Airlines’ summer scheduling woes continued as the airline was forced to cancel additional flights due to poor planning and staffing shortages. “Of the 1,200 flights that we operate every day, we’ve been canceling about 50 of them, roughly 4%,"…
May 16, 2022 11:23 am ET -
Opinion: Lowering Minimums and Raising Retirement Age Won’t Solve Pilot…
As travelers return to the skies, following the suppression of demand from the Covid-19 pandemic, airlines are facing a familiar challenge, a pilot shortage. Before the pandemic, airlines were already facing a wave of pilot retirements in the coming years.…
May 10, 2022 6:05 am ET -
Republic Airways Requests Exemption From 1,500-Hour Rule To Address Pilots…
The airline industry has been worrying for many years about a possible upcoming shortage of pilots to fly all the aircraft needed to cover the networks of all carriers. With all the “baby boomers” approaching their retirement age, it was…
March 10, 2022 7:00 am ET -
Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air Launch Ascend Pilot Academy
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air — the Seattle-based carrier's regional partner — have teamed up to launch their Ascend Pilot Academy (APA), aimed towards providing pilots with a simple, more affordable path to becoming commercial pilots. Participants in the program…
February 8, 2022 6:00 am ET -
Opinion: Automating Away Basic Airmanship
Throughout aviation history, the steady advance of technological progress in the cockpit has greatly simplified the job of piloting aircraft. While statistically there’s no disputing the parallel between innovation and improved safety, I fear that this generation of aviators may…