Summer is in full swing, vaccines are in arms, and planes are bursting at the seams right now in the US.
This ‘back to travel’ boom has created an unusual problem for US airlines – they have too many passengers and not enough crew.
The fast-paced return of domestic travel has many airlines scrabbling to hire back staff after the layoffs that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic.
As Marketplace reported last week, “American Airlines is calling back all 3,300 flight attendants who’ve been on voluntary leave,