United asks pilots to take unpaid time off, citing plane delivery delay

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3 ай бұрын

United Airlines is asking its pilots to take unpaid time off in May, blaming recent delays in the delivery of Boeing aircraft. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.
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@LeonardoUV 3 ай бұрын

Why not asking the CEO to take unpaid time off

@Nayr747 3 ай бұрын

Nah the CEO will just leave and take the standard $50 million golden parachute. Consequences are for the poors.

@roachtoasties 3 ай бұрын

Of course it's not just pilots. If the airlines don't have planes, they'll need to cancel flights. Passengers won't be able to travel, and fares will go up.

@christopher3386 3 ай бұрын

Actually fares will go down.

@bgregg55 3 ай бұрын

So what about all the flight attendants & the other staff required to run an airline? They don't even mention those folks. Also, how about the United executives? Are they going without pay & bonuses?

@numtot2172 3 ай бұрын

Get ready for prices to increase too. Less planes to meet demand = sky high prices

@chuckhunter77 3 ай бұрын

Time off to search Indeed.

@stanleycoleman 3 ай бұрын

What a mess

@SCOHEN250K 3 ай бұрын

Smart move...frustrate the pilots even more.

@Anon1mous 3 ай бұрын

Boeing is going the same direction as this once great country- downhill. And fast.

@Lillypad-ix7sv 3 ай бұрын

Why doesn’t the gd ceo take a pay cut? Do they really hundreds of millions in salary plus stock options? Stop rewarding inept leadership

@PeterFruits-hm8rc 3 ай бұрын

what about the desert of navada having 100's of boeing 767 aircraft on hold during the pandemic ??

@jbar_85 3 ай бұрын

Good question!

@tedjuniormichael1083 3 ай бұрын

VTO. We have that also in Amazon.

@muggsyaxton8085 3 ай бұрын

What say you, Pete Buttigieg?

@ItzSeannyy 3 ай бұрын

I’m sure he’s on it right now

@ljacobs357 3 ай бұрын

Trump signed two Executive Orders requiring the FAA to reduce oversight of the airline industry. This has nothing to do with the current administration.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

You know these issues existed before Secretary Buttigieg came into office, right?

@brady3562 3 ай бұрын

⁠@@erauprcwajust the ripple effect of democrats wanting to shut down the economy.

@MrGbustamante 3 ай бұрын

This is fishy... so did they hire more pilots for the planes they didnt have yet? Did they retire planes from the fleet? Not sure why they need to furlough pilots because of planes they never had. Smells fishy. Either way, rotate the pilots and let them rest up between flights and we will all be safer. It will also give them more time to nail flight attendants

@grriceman782 3 ай бұрын

Yup…FedEx and UPS having to do the same thing

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

and that has nothing to do with Boeing...

@rscott2247 3 ай бұрын

Hopefully lesser known airlines like Breeze, Jet Blue, Frontier, will take up the slack ?

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

Airbus is also having delays with airplane delivery. This is an industry wide thing. Not to mention we're in a slow down in hiring in the industry. This is once again a non-event news story just to drum up drama over something that is always seen in the industry. United isn't the only airplane doing time off for its pilots.

@BookJay35 3 ай бұрын

I don't think it's a good idea to fly on a Boeing plane for the foreseeable future there's a new issue everyday with their current fleet.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

You do realize that Airbus airplanes with Pratt and Whitney engines are having issues, including engine failures? Boeing isn't the only company with issues.

@jbar_85 3 ай бұрын

@@erauprcwayes but those planes with those engines are grounded till they’re repaired or replaced- whatever they’re doing with it. Boeing has constant safety issues. I wouldn’t go on one anymore. Thankfully I usually fly JetBlue so I’m good.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

@@jbar_85 United's brand new A321 had to do an emergency landing due to an in-flight engine failure. There was a door issue on one airplane. That doesn't show "constant" safety issues. The news reporting about a 20+ year old airplane losing a tire, has nothing to do with Boeing.

@bartsolari5035 3 ай бұрын

UA the only airline with too few 737s and too many pilots, dig deeper CNBC?

@keithlewis4250 3 ай бұрын

Shirley not.

@user-hu2jn7yt6g 3 ай бұрын

Don't call me Shirley...lol

@kevingreen5793 3 ай бұрын

Maybe United should switch over to Airbus and teach these pilots how to fly an Airbus aircraft with all the problems Boeing has been having.

@A350flyernyc 3 ай бұрын

It’s not that simple unfortunately. Aircraft orders aren’t like Amazon Prime where you can transition your fleet quickly. Aircraft being ordered now likely won’t be delivered until close to the end of the decade, making Airbus orders an unviable short-term fix.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

Airbus is having issues too, but the news isn't reporting it.

@kevingreen5793 3 ай бұрын

@@erauprcwa what issues is Airbus having? I haven’t heard anything about their planes crashing.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

@@kevingreen5793 First, Boeing hasn't had a crash since 2018. Second, Airbus is having supply issues also, delivering airplanes. Not to mention the issues with Pratt & Whitney engines causing airlines to have to ground their airplanes or having issues with engine failures... United just got their first A321 neo and had an emergency landing due to a failed engine only a few weeks after its inaugural flight.

@kevingreen5793 3 ай бұрын

@@erauprcwa I did not hear about that but I’ll take your word for it. It’s seems like everyone is having supply chain issues and no one seems to be able to fix it.

@arosenweig 3 ай бұрын

Pilots should be trained to fly both Airbus and Boeing planes since they would become more valuable in the industry.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

That's not how being a pilot works...

@arosenweig 3 ай бұрын

If you want to work at JetBlue or Spirit, you need to be able to fly an Airbus aircraft because they do not have any Boeing aircraft in their fleets.

@erauprcwa 3 ай бұрын

@@arosenweig Yes, that's called getting a type rating for the airplane to operate at that airline. Pilots cannot operate a A321 and a Boeing 737 at the same time. You can have a type rating on both airplanes, but that doesn't mean you operate both fleet types with said carrier. I have multiple type ratings, but I can't fly multiple airplane types at my airline.

@davidalvarez4151 3 ай бұрын

@@erauprcwaI think if you printed this in BOLD on the front of an aircraft most people still wouldn’t get it.

@user-vl5tu2fn7r 3 ай бұрын

I surprised that United Airlines has not gotten some of the Airbus a320’s that Alaska Airlines retired. Maybe not as fuel efficient as the Boeing 737 Max aircraft but better than nothing.