United Air Doles Out Perks to Plug 10-Year Gap of 10,000 Pilots
- The carrier sees about half its pilots retiring in next decade
- New program will boost incentives for flying at regionals
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United Airlines Holdings Inc. is escalating efforts to recruit pilots with new financial perks and faster career advancement as the carrier faces the retirement of almost half its aviators over the next decade.
The program, dubbed Aviate, is designed to attract more staff for regional airlines that fly for United, which will then look to field a large portion of its future pilot corps from those carriers.