Southwest Airlines CEO sees industry-wide pilot shortage persisting for 3 years

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Southwest Airlines Co CEO Bob Jordan said that an industry–wide shortage of pilots is expected to last for three years due to the challenges carriers face in training new aviators.

has said it has as much as 50 underused mainline jets and about 150 regional aircraft grounded as the company does not have enough traineds to improve by the end of the year, allowing the airline to get the planes off the ground.

The company is also grappling with Boeing’s aircraft delivery delays, forcing it to rein in capacity growth plans., one of the biggest customers of Boeing’s MAX planes, expects 70 deliveries of the 737-8 jet this year instead of the planned 90 after the U.S. planemaker disclosed a manufacturing issue with some of the workhorse aircraft.

 

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