"If a plane ain’t flyin’, a plane ain’t flyin’."

“We have probably a hundred aircraft that
aren’t productive right now, that aren’t flying”

“It's definitely an emergency situation,"

“This is a national issue. It’s affecting the whole domestic aviation industry but disproportionately affecting smaller regional carriers.”

“There has been a looming pilot shortage for the last decade in the United States, and going through COVID it became an actual pilot shortage.”

"I think this [the pilot shortage] is going to be one of the biggest constraints for the industry going forward.”

“The real constraint is pilot hiring.”

“The access to pilots really becomes the governing factor for growth in the industry over the next few years.”

“We are down flying in the first half of the year on some of the regional carriers given some of the staffing challenges we’re facing, primarily because of pilot hiring.”

“The pilot shortage for the industry is real, and most airlines are simply not going to be able to realize their capacity plans because there simply aren’t enough pilots, at least not for the next five-plus years,”

“There’s a huge pilot shortage….a lot of airplanes are parked right now in the desert southwest.” [Commenting on flight cuts this summer at the Eagle County Regional Airport,]

“Not to say that you lose the airport, you lose the town. But it is critical that … we find something that can assure people that, ‘It’s OK to live out here in rural Kansas because we still have great air service.’”

“Now that demand is back, there are no pilots to fly the planes.” “[The pilot shortage is] the big reason we’re seeing reduced flights.”

“There is a significant pilot shortage in our industry and that resulted in unfortunately in Delta pulling out of our market completely.” Grand Junction Regional Airport, CO, March 2022.

“We can’t tolerate losing all airline service. That doesn’t help Quincy, and it absolutely doesn’t help our region.”

“They're losing pilots at the top end faster than they can hire on the bottom end."

"We are disappointed to confirm SHD is one of the affected airports. This announcement is a direct result of the ongoing severe pilot shortage in the aviation industry and not an indication of poor utilization of the service." Shenandoah.