He gonna get F-16s from Poland or Belgium or Typhoons from Chucky
What he was doing at Buckingham Palace yesterday w/ Chucky
>>18313532 lb
Potato in 82-8000 747 on descent for Tampa and SAM46 C-32A is the escort-prolly go to Orlando or mebby to Patrick SFB-several options
Pilot shortage puts pressure on airline operations
Airlines have complained about a shortage for several years, but they made it worse during the pandemic by encouraging pilots to take early retirement when air travel collapsed in 2020. Helane Becker, an analyst for Cowen who has tracked the issue closely, estimates that 10,000 pilots have left the field since then. Meanwhile, airlines have been in a hiring frenzy that is likely to continue for several years as the carriers replace pilots who reach the federal mandatory retirement age of 65.The government estimates that there will be about 18,000 openings per year for airline and commercial pilots this decade, with many of those replacing retirees. However, the Federal Aviation Administration issued on average only half that number of pilot licenses from 2017 through 2021.
Private forecasts are dire, too. Consulting firm Oliver Wyman estimates that despite efforts to close the gap, airlines in North America will face a shortage of nearly 30,000 pilots by 2032. The supply of new pilots will grow, but not enough to offset a continuing wave of retirements, the consultant says. There is cause for hope, however. Last year, the FAA issued 9,588 airline-transport licenses — the type needed to fly for an airline. That topped even the recent peak of 9,520 in 2016. The key question is whether that pace can be maintained. Some of last year's spurt might have been catch-up from low numbers in 2020 and 2021, which were held down by the pandemic. "The airlines are doing their best to move things along, but it’s an uphill slog," Becker said. Southwest Airlines has more than 700 planes but parks 40 to 45 of them each day because it lacks pilots to fly them, said CEO Bob Jordan at a recent media event. That amounts to more than 200 flights a day or up to 8% of the Dallas-based airline’s flying. Southwest expects to hire 2,250 pilots this year after adding about 1,200 last year, mostly by drawing from smaller airlines. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says the lack of pilots will continue to prevent airlines from expanding as much as they would like to take advantage of strong travel demand. "Pilots are and will remain a significant constraint on capacity," he said during an earnings call last month.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/pilot-shortage-puts-pressure-airline-operations
aye
free tickets offered still wouldn't do it
Almost faster to drive if it's less than 1k miles
only way would be first flight out both ways-hard to manage it that way based on availability now and same nuffin since late 2019
could "feel" something was coming.
>skiing
hope ya had fun
ty for doing that