Alaska Airlines has a shortage of pilots, and the head of the company’s pilot union claims that their position— represented by negotiations that have been ongoing for three years— advocates for industry-standard job security and “basic quality of life” benefits, as Capt. Will McQuillen, Alaska Air’s Master Executive Council chairman, put it to KIRO Newsradio.
Alaska Air confirmed the shortage in a recent quarterly fiscal report, saying “we recently reduced Q2 scheduled capacity in response to shortfalls in throughput from our pilot training department versus what was originally planned.” That scheduled reduction refers to 3% fewer flights in 2022 compared with 2019 passenger capacity data, as opposed to planned
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