Fort Worth, Texas: American Airlines is canceling extended vacations for nearly 3,300 flight attendants and asking them to get back to work in time for the holiday season.
And the US is planning to hire 800 new flight attendants by next March, according to an airline executive.
The moves are the latest sign that leisure travel in the US is recovering from the pandemic faster than airlines expected.
Rising customer demand and new routes starting later this year mean we need more flight attendants to operate the airline, Brady Byrnes, the airline’s vice president of flight services, said Thursday in a memo to flight attendants. told.
Byrnes said cabin crew returning from vacation would return to flights in November or December.
Last year, American offered flight attendants and other employees a longer period of leave of absence to cut costs while it grapples with a sharp drop in travel due to the coronavirus outbreak. Other airlines did the same. Now they need people.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said this week that his airline expects to lay off between 4,000 and 5,000 employees this year. Delta plans to add 1,300 reservation agents by this fall to reduce long wait times for customers calling the airline. It is also adding customer service, cargo and airport staff and plans to hire more than 1,000 pilots before next summer.
When the pandemic hit, the number of flights in the US fell below 100,000 in a matter of days, a level not seen in decades. This year, it has increased from less than 700,000 a day in early February to 2 million a day in July.
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