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Would You Fly With Northwest Airlines?
My Mom just flew to Washington State on [tag]Northwest Airlines[/tag]. When I saw this headline it caught my attention.
Northwest Airlines has seen an increase in the number of [tag]canceled flights[/tag] once again, a condition that the pilots union is blaming on management for not having enough staffing, and which the airline charges is due to a spike in pilots calling in sick starting this past Friday.
The airline says that from Friday through Sunday about 8 percent of its scheduled flights were canceled. Statistics from tracking service FlightStats puts the canceled total a bit higher — 526 out of 4,187 scheduled flights during that period for about 12.6 percent.
As I read into the article, I gathered that because of the shortage of pilots, due to hiring not that there aren’t enough pilots. The pilots cannot fly because they have put in the maximum allowed hours or are too fatigued to fly.
I don’t want a [tag]tired pilot[/tag] flying me anywhere.
I think the issue needs to be looked into and some changes need to be made.
