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The US Senate has asked questions to the six largest US airlines about the
shortage of flight personnel. Because there are too few pilots or cabin crew
members, flight cancellations regularly occur.
 
Airlines have been able to use a support package from the US government since
last year. This is intended, among other things, to be able to pay salaries
and to prevent layoffs as much as possible. Despite the $54 billion in
government aid, thousands of workers were sent home, even though redundancies
were not allowed.
 
Now that air traffic in the US is increasing, it appears that there are
regularly too few personnel to carry out all flights. Senator Maria Cantwell
has asked the directors of American, Delta and Southwest Airlines, among
others, for an explanation, reports Reuters news agency.

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