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United Airlines pilots are being asked to return unpaid clip disconnected adjacent period arsenic nan bearer contends pinch Boeing manufacturing delays.
"We tin corroborate that owed to nan caller delays successful Boeing deliveries, our forecasted artifact hours for 2024 person been reduced and we are offering our pilots voluntary programs for nan period of May to trim excess staffing," nan bearer told FOX Business successful a statement.
United didn't connection immoderate specifics connected nan matter.
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However, nan announcement shows really information concerns involving Boeing's 737 Max are still impacting immoderate of its biggest customers. Boeing was told it is not allowed to grow accumulation of its 737 Max planes while regulators analyse nan institution and its supplier, Spirit AeroSystems. The investigation follows an incident successful January involving a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines successful which a doorway plug connected nan craft blew retired mid-flight.
According to a caller regulatory filing, United anticipated receiving 77 Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets successful 2024. Now, it expects only 56.
United Airlines planes astatine Newark Liberty International Airport connected Jan. 27, 2024, successful New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)
It besides doesn't expect immoderate Max 10 deliveries this twelvemonth and is incapable to accurately forecast its expectations owed to nan hold successful nan plane's certification arsenic nan FAA further investigates nan Alaska Airlines Max 9 incident.
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In early March, United warned that it was temporarily pausing aviator hiring successful May and June owed to caller craft certification and manufacturing delays astatine Boeing.
| UAL | UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS INC. | 44.62 | -1.03 | -2.26% |
| BA | THE BOEING CO. | 184.96 | -3.21 | -1.71% |
The institution said it planned to resume those classes successful July, fixed that "United Aviate and United Military Pilot Program participants stay a apical hiring priority."
Still, nan institution said it will slow nan gait of hiring successful 2024.
A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 pitchy aircraft (United Airlines / Fox News)
"United has hundreds of caller planes connected bid and while we stay connected a way to beryllium nan fastest increasing hose successful nan industry, we conscionable won’t turn arsenic accelerated arsenic we thought we would successful 2024 owed to continued delays astatine Boeing," Marc Champion, vice president of formation operations, and Kirk Limacher, vice president of formation operations, readying and development, said successful a memo seen by FOX Business.
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Boeing has already announced a awesome activity shakeup – including CEO Dave Calhoun stepping down astatine nan extremity of nan twelvemonth – arsenic national information regulators property Boeing to make "profound improvements." Regulators had recovered value issues during an audit of 737 Max manufacturing processes.
FOX Business reached retired to Boeing and nan Air Line Pilots Association for comment.
