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What’s going on with our commercial airlines?
American Thinker ^ | 29 Jun, 2022 | Terry Paulding

Posted on 06/29/2022 4:19:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Silenced, censored, and coerced—the fate of the pilots who are so desperately needed.

Every night, I hear a report on the network news announcing the number of flights canceled. If it’s a slow news day, reporters might interview a couple of irritated, stranded travelers. Thousands of flights are axed on any given day. Many more are delayed. News readers just read the report, without any substantive questioning about why there’s suddenly a great shortage of pilots. The weather is the only excuse ever offered, and that doesn’t work when there are no storms slowing things down.

What’s going on? We’ve never had a pilot shortage before. We may currently have more air travelers needing flights than a year ago, but not more than before COVID—and yet, here we are, facing an entirely new problem. It’s so bad that American Airlines is offering pilots on its regional carriers double and triple pay for the month of July if they’ll take extra flights.

It’s not hard to figure out what’s happening—despite the seeming prohibition on our pilots saying anything about it. We rarely hear a peep from them, at least on mainstream news outlets. There’s even a noticeable dearth of questions asked at Fox News of late. Nobody is questioning this fiasco beyond some Fox Business report of a lot of pilot retirements. It just is, apparently.

There are always going to be retirements and saying, as the link above does, that it’s “expensive to become a pilot.” Give me a break! That’s never been an issue before. So why even consider it now? What job does one get where advanced training doesn’t cost money?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; jab; mandates; vaxx
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1 posted on 06/29/2022 4:19:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The VAX refusers were probably among the best pilots as well.


2 posted on 06/29/2022 4:19:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

How many grounded because the vaxx wrecked their heart?


3 posted on 06/29/2022 4:23:35 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: MtnClimber

The feds destroyed the airlines and it takes time to rebuild the industry.
It’s no different than any other industry that gets hit with the equivalent of a 5.0 hurricane.


4 posted on 06/29/2022 4:23:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I would sell my family for a billion dollars and then buy them back when go on clearance.)
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To: MtnClimber

Americans invented air travel for the masses, and dominated airline construction nearly completely since its inception. It seems fitting that the Left wants to destroy it.


5 posted on 06/29/2022 4:24:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: MtnClimber

Personally, short and to the point, when the various airlines mandated vaccines, the lost soooooo many pilots, and they not coming back.


6 posted on 06/29/2022 4:24:31 AM PDT by cranked
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It isn’t going to get better for years.

Ramping up capacity takes years and high fuel prices mean airlines are going to be phasing out the guzzlers they have been flying and buying all new fleets over the next five years which means hiring/training people that aren’t currently there.


7 posted on 06/29/2022 4:26:49 AM PDT by UNGN
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Q: Has there been an increase in the percentage of pilots flunking a flight medical since the vaxxes came out?

The answer to that might give us a clue.


8 posted on 06/29/2022 4:28:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

It’s not just ticker issues.


9 posted on 06/29/2022 4:28:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

The problem is the Vaxx mandates.

The many of the pilots are ex-military receiving 20 year retirement benefits from the military.

They don’t really NEED to fly airplanes anymore.

They have moved on to something else in the corporate world or simply semi-retired.


10 posted on 06/29/2022 4:29:50 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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“Ramping up capacity takes years and high fuel prices mean airlines are going to be phasing out the guzzlers they have been flying and buying all new fleets over the next five years which means hiring/training people that aren’t currently there”

With high fuel costs, there is a tipping point where customers will no longer travel unless absolutely necessary. I remember pre 9/11 flying one night and there were maybe a dozen of us on the coast to coast flight.


11 posted on 06/29/2022 4:34:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: cranked

They are not going to get more pilots until they stop the vax mandate.

It’s as simple as that.


12 posted on 06/29/2022 4:36:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: cranked
Personally, short and to the point, when the various airlines mandated vaccines, the lost soooooo many pilots, and they not coming back.

...and many new potential pilots are choosing other career paths because they can't risk starting such a narrow track career only to face another Jim Jones Jab mandate down the road. Piloting skills don't transfer to other jobs.

The Pfascists who mandated the Jim Jones Jabs have set off a response that will be felt for generations. Many people had their eyes opened to how government stooges and their korporate cohorts are determined to take their rights away, regardless of the cost. These potential victims are not going to put themselves in a corner without options.

13 posted on 06/29/2022 4:38:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Pilots are an issue but the spike in the cost of fuel is really hitting the airlines hard. They are cutting back on flight schedules to make sure every flight is nearly 100% full. It seems that every flight is fully booked


14 posted on 06/29/2022 4:39:47 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Hammerhead

Yep. Every pilot was an officer if they served.
They have degrees, training, and management skills.
High performing men that are not risk averse and are self starters will get employment.


15 posted on 06/29/2022 4:44:50 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber
There are always going to be retirements and saying, as the link above does, that it’s “expensive to become a pilot.” Give me a break! That’s never been an issue before. So why even consider it now? What job does one get where advanced training doesn’t cost money?

Apparently the author isn't aware that Brandon dramatically increased the baseline training required to get a commercial pilot's license, past the point where the baseline training is now prohibitively expensive for most.

16 posted on 06/29/2022 4:45:21 AM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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Thats what happens when you mandate a medical regime. The vax refusing pilots just left the room. And you know what? They had good reason.

I am waiting for a new Start up airline called ,” Freedom Airways” and it would have NO trouble recruiting pilots.

Right now the airlines are wearing the crap they caused.Looks good on them.They lie to the public. They have to reduce their services and stop cancellingflights thay cannot ever make.They have become frauds.Many of them should abandon routes they can no longer service.


17 posted on 06/29/2022 4:48:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Major airline companies could be training pilots and solving this shortage ....if it was real. But it’s not real. Pilot shortage is an excuse for a real fuel shortage. The fuel shortage has tripled jet fuel prices.


18 posted on 06/29/2022 4:52:36 AM PDT by nagant
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the airlines and Corrupt Media, also want to blame anything but BiteMe’s America Last Energy Policies...


19 posted on 06/29/2022 5:01:56 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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After all the airline restructuring, piloting in not as lucrative and respectable as it used to be.
About the difference between Chuck Yeager and a bus driver.
The airlines got many pilots go, now they cannot get new ones.
There have also been bunch of strikes and sick outs.


20 posted on 06/29/2022 5:05:31 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIshoot in the street without fear.)
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