{"id":10084,"date":"2022-06-08T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T00:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/flights-get-canceled-as-airlines-face-pilot-shortages\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T00:15:01","slug":"flights-get-canceled-as-airlines-face-pilot-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Flights Get Canceled As Airlines Face Pilot Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VdGoGTi1cHE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Airlines struggle with staffing planes and flight schedules as the U.S. faces a pilot shortage. American Airlines\u2019 pilot union says many airlines encouraged pilots to retire early during the pandemic, not expecting the sudden surge of returning passengers and more Covid sick cases. The FAA and international regulations pose a challenge by requiring pilots to retire when they\u2019re 65, regardless of their physical health. Now, Congress may consider raising the retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to NBC News: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb Watch more NBC video: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. 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American Airlines\u2019 pilot union says many airlines encouraged pilots to retire early during the pandemic, not expecting the sudden surge of returning passengers and more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,5354,179,4025,5350,5351,5224,5352,38,5263,165,5353,149],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-breaking-news","tag-evening-news","tag-health","tag-international-news","tag-lester-holt","tag-making-a-difference","tag-national-news","tag-nbc-nightly-news","tag-news","tag-nightly-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}