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... the ... the airline to St ... we don't like to get the chance to get enough I it's the news is raising alarm is that of the things that seem like it could hit sometime in the future ... it is the distant future could already be hurting Flanders ... Jackie consensus with one ... hijacked ... I ... so we could party getting ... which airlines airy and light ... so over the weekend ... oh we saw the first evidence that this pilot shortage which has ... been looming for several months now ... has already basically a rhyme ... I'd United ... Airlines announced on Saturday that it was cutting sixty percent of departures ... in Cleveland one of its malls causes the Sunni owing to eliminate the hub status for that ... city ... I it's a significant ... stock up there and you know largely because because those flights are profitable but ... those reductions in service for accelerated because United regional airline partners ... these are basically smaller airlines that fly and be half ... of the larger airlines ... they can't find enough new pilots ... aam and so they had to decelerate these cuts and aam ... and they made them on Saturday meanwhile ... another smaller one call the great Lakes Airlines which flies in the Midwest ... I instead of cutting service ... aam to six cities in six very small cities in the Midwest to the cities are not served by any other carrier so this means ... the city's now lose all their service and ... the great Lakes Airlines saying that solely because of of a lack of pilots ... after that I see her on the airline industry quite as closely is your mind and what's behind this ... strange looks ... so it's a confluence of events on ... in August and the main factor is ... the FAA of mandated by Congress ... increase the minimum time required ... of experience for new pilot ... new palace now must of fifteen hundred hours of flying before they can fly commercially on a passenger ... jet ... I was been old requirement was two hundred and fifty hours to do it six times that I ... I'm but at the same time reading thousands of pilots are retiring and is based on sort of a hiring bolt ... on and we're also seeing a new pilot rest rules are requiring airlines to hire about five percent more pilots ... I just to keep ... and maintain current service levels ... so you got a whole lot of different things happening or what it means is ... these big mainline airlines to know like United and Delta American their hiring away from smaller airlines in the smaller airlines in turn ... can find enough pilots ... to fill that gap ... and a perfect storm here is there anything challenging to try to recruit more A new pilot ... well I deal with the smaller airlines are surely trying we're we're now hearing that there ... I even offering five to ten thousand dollars signing bonuses ... and in you know they're picking up recruiting ... on them but the same time that you know the problem here ... is that it sorted deep rooted the smaller airlines do not pay much for a starting pilots and in some cases fifteen thousand to twenty thousand dollars the year ... meanwhile these pilots ... are spending a lot of money seventy five thousand two hundred thousand dollars in several years just to get those fifteen hundred hours of experience ... so I you got you a big conference event the screen is from which also have some of the deep rooted problem ... that it cannot be fixed simply ... wasn't at the beginning so final at the plate and then in southern areas that might had any other carrier options ... is that we should expect to see more and I mean are these rural areas to get ... in her eye this morning big metropolitan areas might be ... without a doubt I mean you know in the airline industry when cuts need to be made those cuts ... are always made to the flights that are most unprofitable ... and they almost always turn out to be to smaller cities the smaller community ... on the federal government you know we subsidize the lobby flights but still they are very profitable so ... no view in Chicago or New York or Los Angeles your server should be fine from this but if you live in so the more role areas of this country ... August Polish words may mean you may have ... fewer options to fly ... for a disappointing is for fliers and sharing Jack thanks for joining us ...