If Southwest Had All the Pilots It Needed, Here's How Business Would Change
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Filling Southwest's pilot shortage can't come soon enough for CEO Bob Jordan, who sees the staffing challenges as the biggest barrier preventing the carrier from further taking advantage of massive travel demand.
Southwest Airlines reported a record setting third quarter on Thursday in spite of a pilot shortage that's preventing the carrier from running its full pre-pandemic flight schedules.
"In the other areas, we aren't perfect, but we're nearly staffed. We are just short on pilots to fly all our aircraft," said CEO Bob Jordan said Thursday on CNBC program Squawk Box. Pilot shortages were one of the factors that slowed down the U.S. airli
