You Should Rethink Flying United Airlines

Article author: 
Dennis Prager
Article date: 
19 January 2024
Article category: 
National News
Medium
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In 2021, United Airlines released the following statement:

"Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That's why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color."

In the past few weeks, a 2021 interview with United CEO Scott Kirby, in which he promoted United's pilot-training policies, went viral...

I will now do my best to avoid flying United. I am also giving up my United Visa card...

And I am asking all Americans who have a choice in airlines and a choice in credit cards to do the same. If you don't fight this battle, you have no right to complain about the demise of our society, let alone of United or any other airline adopting similar policies...

The notion that the cockpit or the mayor's office has to look like the rest of the population is just foolish...

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