'Value of pilots has gone up,' industry must respond: Flair CEO

As WestJet ramped its operations back up after reaching an 11th-hour agreement with its pilots union, the chief executive of rival Flair Airlines said that the industry must respond to the demand for their increasingly sparse labour.

Stephen Jones told BNN Bloomberg in a television interview that “demand for pilots has really increased across the post-pandemic period,” and that has translated into high compensation demands from the aviation professionals.

“There’s no doubt that the value of pilots has gone up over the last period and it’s something the industry needs to deal with,” Jones said Friday.

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