My husband is a very senior pilot at Delta. The biggest problem is there is a major pilot shortage! Many pilots took the early out offered at the beginning of the pandemic. The airlines didn’t expect things to bounce back this quick. They are hiring in droves (never a better time for a pilot want to be) The training department is very backed up as many pilots are waiting for training. My husband is an instructor pilot who does the final training in -flight once they are done with ground school. He literally has a student on every flight. Unprecedented. There are of course some pilots that are getting the omicron variant but the root of the problem is the shortage of pilots.
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