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Effective August 1, 2013, all airline pilots must have an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATP) or an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate with restricted Privileges (ATP-r). An ATP allows a pilot to act as the captain or first officer of an airline flight and requires 1,500 hours of total flight time as well as other requirements (i.e. 25 ...
Marlon Dewitt Green [1] (June 6, 1929 – July 6, 2009) was an African-American pilot whose landmark United States Supreme Court decision in 1963 helped dismantle racial discrimination in the American passenger airline industry. The decision led to David E. Harris's hiring
Harris retired in 1994, after flying for American Airlines for a total of 30 years. [5] Harris was considered a pioneer African-American commercial airline pilot. [9] [6] A year after Harris was hired by American, Western Airlines hired African-American pilot Fred Pitcher; United Airlines hired African-American pilot Bill Norwood. [9]
CHICAGO (Reuters) -American Airlines pilots have approved a new contract that includes more than $9.6 billion in total pay and benefits increases over four years, reflecting the bargaining power ...
The Airline Career Pilot Program is a fixed-cost airline pilot training program, where students start with zero experience and graduate in seven months after earning Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructors certificates. [17] Students train full-time using flight and simulator lessons, ground school and independent study. [17]
American Airlines agreed to raise its pilot contract offer by more than a billion dollars to bring it on par with the tentative agreement competitor United Airlines reached with its pilots last week.
This rating requires highly specialized training by a certificated flight instructor (CFI) with a special instrument instruction rating (CFII), and completion of an additional written exam, oral exam, and flight test. Pilots applying for an instrument rating must hold a current private pilot certificate and medical, have logged at least 50 ...
The 15,000 pilots in American Airlines' union say the tentative agreement still doesn't match the benefits of United Airlines pilots.