Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci says that the airline will have 114 more pilots ready to fly in June.
, with the airline canceling 73 flights on Sunday, April 3. Alaska said that the cancellations impacted more than 37,000 travelers from April 1 through April 3.amid more cancellations and a pilot shortage.
“We started April and May with 63 fewer Alaska pilots than we needed to fly our schedule,” Minicucci said in the letter. “By the time we recognized we would be short, April and May schedules were already bid by our pilots and flight attendants. So, even though we cut block hours, which is the metric we use to calculate how many pilots we need, there was no way to completely close the gap between the number of block hours on the schedule compared to pilots available to fly.
Of the 1,200 flights that the airline operates everyday, about 50, or roughly 4%, have been canceled. Minicucci says that these cancellations will continue through June 1. “This is coming at a time when flights are already full, so rebooking options are limited and many of our guests have experienced extraordinarily long hold times to get the help they need, putting strain on literally every team in the organization,” Minicucci said.
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