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ZeroTT
United Airlines was forced to cut service to 11 secondary cities across the midwestern USA beginning in January due to the pilot shortage, the company’s chief executive officer says.
“It’s down to pilots,” Scott Kirby tells viewers of the Skift Aviation conference on 17 November. The pilot shortage is now real, we don’t have enough pilots to fly all the airplanes. It’s very simple.”
https://www.flightglobal.com/network...146481.article
I listened to this interview with Kirby. Probably not a surprise, but he mentioned that with the shortage at the regionals, the 50 seat flying is the first to go.