These inefficiencies also force airlines to hire more crew members.

This was a man who wanted to be a cabin attendant, and that particular airline hired only women.

Six years ago, the airlines were hiring few mechanics.

The main reasons: family separation and the airlines are hiring.

Meanwhile, the airlines are hiring record numbers of pilots and a shortage is developing.

In addition, the airline has hired 1,000 pilots, of whom 300 have finished their training.

Generally, the airlines hire two attendants for every one pilot hired.

In the last two months alone, the nation's airlines hired 17,000 attendants.

Instead, the airlines have hired some of Washington's best-connected lobbyists.

The airline's search for pilots comes at a time when other airlines are hiring a record number of them, about 4,000 last year.