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Posted on 03/13/2024 7:45:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff
CHICAGO, July 20 (Reuters) - United Airlines (UAL.O) , opens new tab CEO Scott Kirby has acknowledged that the carrier's pilots are shunning promotion to the captain's chair, hurting its flight capacity in the fourth quarter, confirming what Reuters reported earlier this week. 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, creating headaches for the Chicago-based company
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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.
Regards,
You would have more pilots if you didn’t force them to take the clot shot.
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,
But it does raise a question, what does motivate pilots these days if not money?
United used to be one of the best airlines.
Now it’s very much a business in decline.
The military. Give them TDY assignments to the airlines. They’re not THAT busy.
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.
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).
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.
I have an idea…recruit more Gender Dysphoric mentally ill people!!!
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.
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.
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.
We live in a weird world.
If history is any guide, proportionally fewer female pilots than male will seek the unpredictable full-time Captain’s schedule.
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)
“My ex-wife was tarded, she’s a pilot now!”
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.
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