Expecting an Air travel rebound this summer, American airlines to start hiring of pilots and other staffs.
A company memo says that, it has plans to resume hiring pilots and also rethinking of future staffing owing to CDC relaxed norms of vaccinated mass and air travel recovery.
The Pandemic had stopped the airlines' hiring plans last year as carriers went on reducing their staffs to stay afloat , when travel demand plunged.
Bookings are recovering now, travel deprived population is coming up to take travel this summers and airlines are expecting busy flights to cater them.
American airlines is expecting to see an occupancy of 90% of loads this summer compared to that of 2019 domestic schedule.
Possibly next month onwards there will be a restart of hiring by United Airlines, while budget carrier Spirit Airlines has already began training for new pilots in the month of March. Jetblue has also made plans to start hiring pilots later this year.
American plans to start by hiring 300 new pilots by the end of the year and plans to double that number in 2022, Chip Long, American’s vice president of flight operations, stated in a staff memo.
Texas-based Airline has around 15,000 pilots under the payroll, though many have taken early retirement in lieu of age factor of 65 , the federally mandated retirement age for airline pilots.
Domestic flying may recover but the international travel demand will remain weak for some time, as travel restrictions of many countries are not favourable.
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