{"id":1983215,"date":"2023-07-26T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delays-cancellations-could-plague-airline-industry-for-ten-years-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:32:37","slug":"delays-cancellations-could-plague-airline-industry-for-ten-years-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delays-cancellations-could-plague-airline-industry-for-ten-years-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline industry may face delays, cancellations for a decade: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fdelays-cancellations-could-plague-airline-industry-for-ten-years-report%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=1983215&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--><h2>The Looming Crisis in the Airline Industry<\/h2>\n<p>Get ready for\u200c more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southwest-cancels-hundreds-of-more-flights-following-turbulent-weekend\/\" title=\"Southwest Cancels Hundreds Of More Flights Following Turbulent Weekend\">flight delays<\/a> and cancellations in the coming years. A recent\u2064 report \u200breveals that the aviation industry is facing a severe shortage of commercial pilots, mechanics, and \u2063air\u2064 traffic controllers, and it&#8217;s \u200bonly going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers \u200bspeak for themselves. The industry is currently 32,000 professionals short of what is needed for smooth operations. Shockingly, some estimates suggest that by 2030, airlines \u200bworldwide could be short of 60,000 pilots.<\/p>\n<p>This shortage\u2062 is already causing \u200da significant increase in delays that are within the control of air\u2064 carriers. In 2018, these delays accounted for\u2063 5.2% of all flights, but by 2023, that number had risen to 7.6%. Just recently, between June 24-27, a staggering 31,850 flights were delayed, representing one-third of all \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faa-reveals-more-details-on-system-outage-that-grounded-flights-nationwide\/\" title=\"FAA Reveals More Details On System Outage That Grounded Flights Nationwide\">flights nationwide<\/a>, a 25% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines, for example, had to cancel a whopping 14,042 flights between December 24 and December 31, 2022, making up\u200b 72.3% of all canceled flights nationwide.<\/p>\n<h3>Addressing the Crisis<\/h3>\n<p>Airlines are well aware of the urgency to address this issue.\u200b Airlines-4-America, representing \u2062seven major carriers, has taken steps to secure a pipeline of new employees by establishing pilot training \u200cprograms, enhancing recruitment efforts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employee-at-usaid-contractor-celebrated-terrorist-attack-against-israeli-civilians\/\" title=\"Employee at USAID Contractor Celebrated Terrorist Attack Against Israeli Civilians\">implementing programs<\/a> to overcome financial obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u2062the shortage persists. \u201cThey \u2062are leaving planes on the ground because they don\u2019t have enough people to fly them for \u2062ground crews\u2062 or anything like that,\u201d says Dean Headley, an emeritus associate professor at Wichita \u200bState University. \u201cThe airlines are doing about as much\u200c as they can to improve staffing levels, training around 1,500 to 1,800\u2062 pilots a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the problem extends beyond pilots. Kathleen Bangs, spokeswoman for flight tracking website FlightAware, highlights the shortage of mechanics, with about half of all airline maintenance being outsourced overseas. Attracting young people to become mechanics is crucial, but the industry must also address the increasing outsourcing of maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the air traffic control sector is\u200d also suffering.\u2063 The \u2063CBS News analysis found that \u2064the aviation industry is currently \u200dshort \u2062of approximately\u200c 3,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delays-cancellations-could-plague-airline-industry-for-ten-years-report\/\" title=\"Airline industry may face delays, cancellations for a decade: Report.\">000\u200b fully-certified air traffic controllers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Implications<\/h3>\n<p>This shortage \u200baffects everyone who travels by air. Joel English, the vice president of the Aviation\u200b Institute of Maintenance, warns that if not addressed, ticket prices will continue \u2064to rise, and delays \u200dwill persist.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation\u200d industry must act swiftly to attract\u2063 and train new professionals to fill these critical roles. Otherwise,\u2062 the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-announces-strict-quarantine-rules-for-travelers\/\" title=\"Canada announces strict quarantine rules for travelers\">air travel<\/a> may be marred by chaos \u200band frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report predicts persistent flight delays and cancellations in the airline industry for the next decade. The shortage of commercial pilots, mechanics, and air traffic controllers is to blame. ACBS News analyzed data from the FAA, U.S. Department of Transportation, and U.S. Department of Labor to reach this conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1983216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983215","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}