{"id":456306,"date":"2021-12-16T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456306"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:00:07","slug":"airlines-in-us-facing-shortage-of-pilots-other-workers-say-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-in-us-facing-shortage-of-pilots-other-workers-say-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines in US facing shortage of pilots, other workers, say executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are having trouble hiring pilots, flight attendants and other personnel, and that&#8217;s part of what is causing canceled flights and scrapping of service to some airports, executives told legislators on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said a large service outage in October began when high winds shut down three of five runways at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline&#8217;s largest hub. <\/p>\n<p>American, he said, ended up with jets and people in the wrong places, and had a hard time getting workers to pick up extra shifts to handle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Although workers are doing a great job during the pandemic, they are reluctant to take extra shifts due to the risk of the novel coronavirus and unruly passengers, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are having trouble hiring pilots, flight attendants and other personnel, and that&#8217;s part of what is causing canceled flights and scrapping of service to some airports, executives told legislators on Wednesday. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said a large service outage in October began when high winds shut down three of five runways at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline&#8217;s largest hub. American, he said, ended up with jets and people in the wrong places, and had a hard time getting workers to pick up extra shifts to handle the problem. Although workers are doing a great job during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}