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American Airlines Can’t Find Enough Employees to Keep Planes Flying (giantfreakinrobot.com)
10 points by tenith 1828 days ago
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The airlines were given billions of dollars to keep staff employed, they took the money, and as soon as they could, got rid of the staff anyway. Then used the money to buy back their own stock, to raise its price.

Color me shocked, simply shocked that short sighted management backfired.

How many terrorists has the TSA stopped again? I'm old enough to have done a significant amount of flying pre 9/11 and the creation of the TSA has only made the flying experience worse without any value add. I've since concluded it is just a low skill jobs program.