dnickerson80h

AA management totally screwed the pooch on hiring, scheduling and covid shot requirements and had better get right with their pilots or it’s going to be a summer of delays for AA customers. Pre-covid AA had enough pilots that each airport had reserve pilots who could take on flights when inbound crews were delayed. AA is down 5,400 pilots from pre-covid due to early retirements and pilots that did not see it in their health interests to get the covid shot. AA’s system is over constrained. There are too few pilots for the schedule and no buffer. Without this buffer, a simple crew delay mushrooms exponentially into a system wide problem.

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Karrpilot

The last time I flew commercial was in 2017. I couldn’t care less about it. I will either fly myself or drive. This year, due to scheduling conflicts and other issues, I am driving. I won’t be putting too many log entries in, but that’s OK. I can fly later on and build up the funds as well.

pilotmww

The airline staff issues are self induced. What I don’t understand is what happened to the $50 million of our tax dollars given to the airlines during the Covid restrictions that was supposed to prevent all this?

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pilotmww

Or was it $50 billion, don’t remember!

FlyerDon

Gosh for a brief moment I thought you were serious but than I realized you were just joking. Good one.