On Wednesday, a notice was sent out from the Allied Pilots Association to American Airlines employees regarding a failure in the scheduling system used to assign pilots to flights. This failure is causing thousands of flights over the critical holiday period to be “unstaffed” without a flight deck crew.
A simple check of some random flights over the December period verifies this information – there’s no one up front on the schedule.
While I’m unfamiliar with the inner workings of this particular grievance, there could be the potential for widespread cancellations or delays as American looks to ensure “thousands” of flights have flight crews assigned to them.
Jamie Larounis is an avid traveler, blogger and miles/points educator. Traveling well over 100,000 miles a year and staying in hotels for over 100 nights, he leverages miles, points and other deals to fly in first class cabins, and stay in 5-star hotels. The Forward Cabin shares his experiences, musings, reviews, tips, tricks, resources and industry news with you, the fellow traveler.
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