{"id":1929,"date":"2024-03-09T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/united-to-pause-pilot-hiring-citing-boeings-delivery-delays\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:05:59","slug":"united-to-pause-pilot-hiring-citing-boeings-delivery-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/united-to-pause-pilot-hiring-citing-boeings-delivery-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"United to pause pilot hiring, citing Boeing\u2019s delivery delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"\">United Airlines\u00a0will pause pilot hiring this spring because of aircraft deliveries from\u00a0Boeing, the latest effect of the plane maker\u2019s problems with one of its biggest customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New hire classes will be paused in May and June and will likely resume in July, Marc Champion, vice president of flight operations, and Kirk Limacher, vice president of flight ops planning and development, told staff Thursday in a memo, which was seen by CNBC.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe wanted to let you know that United will slow the pace of pilot hires this year due to continued new aircraft certification and manufacturing delays at Boeing,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boeing didn\u2019t immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boeing has been struggling with a\u00a0host of production flaws\u00a0like incorrectly drilled holes on the fuselage and the fallout from a door plug that blew out of a nearly new Boeing Max 9 operated by\u00a0Alaska Airlines\u00a0on Jan. 5, which prompted a brief grounding of the aircraft type earlier this winter. Bolts appeared to be\u00a0missing on the plane\u00a0when it left Boeing\u2019s factory, a preliminary investigation found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">United was contracted to receive 43 Boeing 737 Max 8 and 34 Max 9 models this year, but expects to get 37 and 19 of them, respectively, according to a company filing. It also had contracted deliveries of 80 Max 10s in 2024, the largest model in the bestselling Max family, but expects none of them this year. The plane hasn\u2019t yet been certified yet by the Federal Aviation Administration and is years behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">United\u2019s CEO, Scott Kirby, in January said the carrier is making a fleet plan without the Max 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAs you know, United has hundreds of new planes on order and while we remain on a path to be the fastest growing airline in the industry, we just won\u2019t grow as fast as we thought we would in 2024 due to continued delays at Boeing,\u201d Champion and Limacher said Thursday. \u201cFor example, we had contractual deliveries for 80 MAX 10s this year alone \u2014 but those aircraft aren\u2019t even certified yet and it\u2019s impossible to know when they will arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines\u00a0will pause pilot hiring this spring because of aircraft deliveries from\u00a0Boeing, the latest effect of the plane maker\u2019s problems with one of its biggest customers. New hire classes will be paused in May and June and will likely resume in July, Marc Champion, vice president of flight operations, and Kirk Limacher, vice president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}