Southwest has been hampered by a pilot training bottleneck that’s left it unable to fully utilize all of its aircraft
. Along with other carriers, it’s expanding to take advantage of travel demand that has surged since the spring of 2021 as the pandemic waned.
“This is to address the shrinking pool of pilots interested in coming to Southwest,” said Casey Murray, head of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association. “They’re having problems hiring them, they’re also having trouble keeping them.” The carrier is “having no trouble hiring pilots” and no trouble filling its training classes, Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan said on a Jan. 26 conference call.Mary Schlangenstein and Alan Levin of Bloomberg News wrote this story.
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