The airline canceled 73 flights Sunday, including 33 at Sea-Tac Airport.
The airline provided KIRO 7 with numbers and the cancellations have impacted more than 37,000 travelers since flights were first canceled Friday.“Basically, just been redirected from line to line, trying to get us a new flight. I’ve waited in this line once already, so here I am again,” traveler Patrick Monreal said.
“We’re ready and we want to fly. We just simply don’t have enough pilots at this time to execute the schedule the company has put forth,” said Will McQuillen, the Alaska Airlines MEC chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association. “The attrition that we’ve seen is not just amongst new pilots. We are losing pilots who have been here for a number of years. We lost captains to other airlines and that is so unique,” McQuillen said.
The high number of resignations mixed with increased demand for flights is leading to the travel troubles and the pilots association said it saw it coming.
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