{"id":1177866,"date":"2022-01-01T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1177866"},"modified":"2022-01-01T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:04:49","slug":"airlines-triple-pay-for-pilots-double-for-flight-attendants-amid-widespread-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airlines-triple-pay-for-pilots-double-for-flight-attendants-amid-widespread-cancellations\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Triple Pay For Pilots, Double For Flight Attendants Amid Widespread Cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fairlines-triple-pay-for-pilots-double-for-flight-attendants-amid-widespread-cancellations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1177866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Various airlines are more than tripling pay for employees amid widespread flight cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, firms are canceling flights as they experience staff shortages due to the Omicron variant. JetBlue, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jetblue-cuts-1280-flights-in-first-weeks-of-january\">nixed<\/a> 1,280 flights between December 30 and January 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/31\/united-airlines-offers-pilots-triple-pay-to-ease-omicron-flight-disruptions.html\">CNBC<\/a> reported that United Airlines will significantly hike compensation for pilots who take extra trips:<\/p>\n<p>United and the pilots union, the Air Line Pilots Association, reached an agreement for higher pay to cover open trips, Bryan Quigley, United\u2019s senior vice president of flight operations said Friday in a staff note, which was seen by CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots will be offered three-and-a-half times their pay for flying open trips between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3 and triple pay for picking up trips between Jan. 4 and Jan. 29, the note said.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit Airlines is doubling pay for flight attendants, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/31\/business\/spirit-airlines-flight-attendant-pay-covid\/index.html\">CNN Business<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Spirit Airlines flight attendants are receiving double pay on any work through January 4, their union said, as the budget carrier scrambles to keep its schedules intact after U.S. airlines were hammered by a week of mass cancellations\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll flight attendants, regardless of how you have obtained your pairing, will be receiving 200% pay for any pairing that touches Dec. 28 through Jan. 4,\u201d the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement. The union represented about 4,000 flights attendants at Spirit Airlines, according to the carrier\u2019s latest annual filing.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond flight cancellations, airline executives are seeking to comply with federal regulations surrounding COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing. In a recent testimony to Congress, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/major-airline-ceos-push-back-on-plane-mask-mandates-case-is-very-strong-that-masks-dont-add-much\">told<\/a> lawmakers that the Biden administration\u2019s mask mandate appears to have a negligible impact on infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the case is very strong that masks don\u2019t add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cIt is very safe and very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker agreed: \u201cI concur, an aircraft is the safest place you can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true of all of our aircraft \u2014 they all have the same HEPA filters and air flow,\u201d Parker added.<\/p>\n<p>Some airlines have walked back their vaccine mandates. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/delta-air-lines-ceo-ditches-divisive-vaccine-mandate\">said<\/a> that announcing a plan to get all employees vaccinated \u2014 without enforcing a mandate \u2014 has worked, allowing the company to attain a 90% vaccination rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason the mandate was put in by [the] president, I believe, was because they wanted to make sure companies had a plan to get their employees vaccinated,\u201d Bastian said. \u201cA month before the president came out with the mandate, we had already announced our plan to get all of our people vaccinated. And the good news is the plan is working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by signing our <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">petition<\/a> to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various airlines are more than tripling pay for employees amid widespread flight cancellations. As The Daily Wire previously reported, firms are canceling flights as they experience staff shortages due to the Omicron variant. JetBlue, for instance, nixed 1,280 flights between December 30 and January 13. CNBC reported that United Airlines will significantly hike compensation for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}