A post-pandemic surge in major airline hiring has promoted more pilots to the controls of larger planes that they have less experience with, raising potential safety concerns, according to industry experts and pilot unions. Major US airlines have added nearly 10,000 pilots so far this year, putting them on pace to shatter the record pilot hiring spree of more than 13,000 last year, according to data reported by the on Tuesday.Those figures are more than double the 4,977 pilots hired in 2019, and far above the roughly 5,400 hired in 2021, which had been the busiest year for pilot hiring at major airlines in decades, the data from FAPA.aero show.
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