Pilot shortage affects mainline financial performance
By payloadblogger, Pay Load Connector, December 15, 2019, 12:12pm Many suggest the pilot shortage only impacts the regional airline industry, but its effect extends to mainlines, LCCs and ULCCs and goes far beyond putting qualified bodies on the flight deck of passenger and cargo carriers.
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Ready for a 19-Hour Flight? Tests to Start on New York-to-Sydney Route – The New York Times
Passengers will be closely monitored to determine the effects of so much time spent in the air. By Anna Schaverien, NY Times, Aug. 22, 2019
How Investigators Pull Data off a Boeing 737’s Black Boxes
By Alex Davies, Transportation, 03.15.19 05:15 PM IN THE FIVE days since Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed a few minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard, regulators around the world have grounded the Boeing 737 MAX 8. https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-737-max-8-ethiopia-crash-black-box-data-lion-air/
How do airlines fill capacity lost with grounding of 737 Max planes? ‘They probably don’t,’ expert says
Mike Lloyd and Hana Mae Nassar, March 14, 2019 How long will Canada’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8s be grounded? That’s the question facing the country’s airlines, which fly more of the aircraft combined than almost any other nation on the planet. https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/14/airlines-capacity-grounding-737-max/