{"id":36378,"date":"2021-12-15T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36378"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:56:09","slug":"im-an-american-airlines-pilot-this-pilot-shortage-isnt-going-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36378","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m an American Airlines pilot. This pilot shortage isn&#8217;t going anywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dennis_Tajer-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Tajer\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dennis_Tajer-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dennis_Tajer-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dennis_Tajer.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Airlines pilot Dennis Tajer says this pilot shortage isn&#8217;t going anywhere. We&#8217;ve gone from the problems that hit the airline industry during the pandemic to not enough employees, high demand, and not enough seats for passengers. Not enough pilots are being trained because instructors are resigning. Other airlines also offer better benefits.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pilot-shortage-american-airlines-heres-why-2021-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines pilot Dennis Tajer says this pilot shortage isn&#8217;t going anywhere. We&#8217;ve gone from the problems that hit the airline industry during the pandemic to not enough employees, high demand, and not enough seats for passengers. Not enough pilots are being trained because instructors are resigning. Other airlines also offer better benefits. https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pilot-shortage-american-airlines-heres-why-2021-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36380,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378\/revisions\/36380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}