United exec says loss of skills may have contributed to Boeing problems (yahoo.com)
A senior United Airlines executive highlighted the widespread loss of experience in the aviation industry since the COVID-19 pandemic and said it may have contributed to recent problems at Boeing.
“Experience counts and they need to have a good experienced team righting the ship,” Executive Vice President Finance Gerry Laderman told the Airline Economics conference in Dublin.
If Covid shutdowns, layoffs and furloughs caused this loss of experience, imagine what shutting down all of the aviation sector for 20 years might do – that’s what academics at UK FIRES recommend be done – shutting down all airports and aviation starting in 2030 out to 2050 – because climate: Climate: We must shut down everything, end all travel, all global shipping – Coldstreams
That means everyone is out of the industry – pilots, management, airframe and powerplant mechanics, avionics technicians, aerospace engineers, academic programs in aerospace engineering (who would study a field for which there is no employment for 20 years?), airport staff and managers, everyone gone. It would take decades to recover – and accomplish nothing.
