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United CEO confirms airline faces problem finding pilots to take captain's chair
Reuters ^ | 7/20/23 | Rajesh Kumar Singh

Posted on 03/13/2024 7:45:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff

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This is purely anecdotal, but I was a shuttle driver in the DFW airport area, and the hotel I worked at catered to pilots doing initial and recurrent training in simulators.

About 95% of the pilots worked for cargo airlines, and I would hear the scuttlbutt, about how the younger pilots were thinking going to a commercial passenger airline, the older pilots basically said avoid United like the plague.

1 posted on 03/13/2024 7:45:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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United CEO confirms airline faces problem finding woke, queer, and psychologically disturbed pilots to take captain's chair

Regards,

2 posted on 03/13/2024 7:47:24 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: DallasBiff

You would have more pilots if you didn’t force them to take the clot shot.


3 posted on 03/13/2024 7:47:30 AM PDT by Roklok
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To: DallasBiff

Multiple pilots at United told Reuters that senior first officers have been avoiding promotion to captain as they do not want the unpredictable schedule that comes with the bigger paycheck,


And this may be the first time management has heard this?

But it does raise a question, what does motivate pilots these days if not money?


4 posted on 03/13/2024 7:49:02 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DallasBiff

United used to be one of the best airlines.

Now it’s very much a business in decline.


5 posted on 03/13/2024 7:50:09 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: rdcbn1

The military. Give them TDY assignments to the airlines. They’re not THAT busy.


6 posted on 03/13/2024 7:52:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: alexander_busek

You nailed it. Sane, non-woke, patriotic, hard-working white pilots know they are not wanted.

The military that disdains sane, non-woke, patriotic, hard-working white soldiers, airmen, and sailors finds they can’t recruit enough people, either.

Just a coincidence, I’m sure.


7 posted on 03/13/2024 7:53:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DallasBiff

I haven’t flown enough. And I haven’t been to all the airlines. But my limited sample size has showed me that United is the worst airline. It’s not as nice as others. I’ve flown on Delta a couple times. I thought it was pretty nice (for an American airline).


8 posted on 03/13/2024 7:54:27 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Didn’t United demand their pilots get clot shots or else?

Yeah, If today’s pilots have any sense, they’d know to stay away from this place.


9 posted on 03/13/2024 7:55:35 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

I have an idea…recruit more Gender Dysphoric mentally ill people!!!


10 posted on 03/13/2024 7:56:26 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The schedule is not more unpredictable for captains it is just seniority based as is the first officer scheduling. If they move up to captain, they are then lowest in seniority and get the crap schedule.


11 posted on 03/13/2024 8:01:14 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: DallasBiff

My son’s friend works for United and does not want to be a Captain since he would have to rent a room in SF one week a month to be on call.

It pays really well but the stand by requirement is insane.


12 posted on 03/13/2024 8:10:25 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

My first commercial flight was in 1952 on an American Airlines Convair from St. Louis to Chicago. Countless commercial flights after that until I permanently quit in 2001. All the way up thru at least the 60’s most pilots were WW2 vets. After that, airlines hired heavily from ex-military pilots. This covered the “Golden Age” of aviation and everything worked like a clock. United and American were premiere for domestic business travel an Pan Am for overseas. Everything went to hell with new generations of woke management, pathetic junk passengers, government meddling, infernal TSA type stuff and general overall American cultural rot.


13 posted on 03/13/2024 8:11:07 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rdcbn1
(This is Scott Kirby, the CEO of @united. He likes to dress up in drag.)



Dear Heavens....now it all makes sense..... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️


14 posted on 03/13/2024 8:17:09 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

We live in a weird world.


15 posted on 03/13/2024 8:27:47 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: PeterPrinciple

If history is any guide, proportionally fewer female pilots than male will seek the unpredictable full-time Captain’s schedule.


17 posted on 03/13/2024 8:36:06 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby just can’t seem to figure out why he can’t get more people to go to Captain.

1) Clot shots?

2) The Drag-Queen dancing?

3) Woke agendas?

I don’t know why so many CEOs are stupid these days.

Bud Light, DORITOS, Chik-fil-A......and on and on and on and on (correction)


18 posted on 03/13/2024 8:36:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: one guy in new jersey

“My ex-wife was tarded, she’s a pilot now!”


19 posted on 03/13/2024 8:38:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Roklok

The clot shot was kinda the final nail in the coffin. The pilot shortage has been coming on for years. The main reason is because flight training has become so expensive. Why? Tort mostly. Our litigious society is costing us dearly. There’s an A&P mechanic and IA (certified inspector) shortage, too, much for the same reasons. Airplanes come and airplanes go, but signatures in logbooks last forever. Add it all up, throw in some DEI, and it doesn’t bode well for commercial air travel over the coming years.


20 posted on 03/13/2024 8:38:49 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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