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Amusement Park looking to fill about 4,000 positions.

Amusement Park looking to fill about 4,000 positions.

Weve heard from bus drivers about the struggles, the behavior issues and a shortage of drivers nationwide.

Over 600 students attended from schools across West Hawai‘i, including Kohala High School, Konawaena High School, West Hawai‘i Explorations Academy, Ke Kula O Ehunuikaimalino and Honoka‘a High School.

While more than 90 people are set to be hired over the next several months in working to manage and digitize the records, 68 of those positions are already open. 

Trained here since june. >> we have real ambitions to grow the airline, essentially double the size of the airline. >> seasoned pilots are also in demand. piedmont just announced a $100,000 signing bonus for new captains. >> the opportunities have never been better. >> new industry numbers show staffing at the major airlines has exceeded prepandemic levels. the hiring blitz comes after airlines struggled this summer, canceling 55,000 flights due in part to staffing shortages but hiring is happen...

Air travel record. and hits record of 2.88 since sunday 2019. i asked the tsa administrator if its a possibility. >> this holiday travel is the biggest holiday travel since prepandemic. prepandemic, on the sunday following thanksgiving, almost 3 million passengers, well be pretty close to that this sunday. >> reporter: these numbers are so important because of all of the uncertainty that airlines and passengers face over the summertime. when airlines cancelled a total of 50,000 flights compounde...

Weather. this time around the weather has been good and airlines have been on a hiring blitz. in fact on tuesday, united airlines said it cancelled no lights networkwide. boris, sara. almost, this might temper folks frustrations as theyre trying to get home. this story is incredible. you do not want to be this guy, although rescued a cruise ship passenger may have been floating in the gulf of mexico for up to 15 hours after going overboard a carnival cruise ship sometime late wednesday night. ...

Following thanksgiving almost 3 million passengers. well be pretty close to that the sunday following this thanksgiving. >> reporter: the numbers are so important because of all the uncertainty airlines and passengers faced in the summertime when they canceled 50,000 flights no total due in part to staffing shortages, and that was all compounded by bad weather. the weather this time around has been relatively good and airlines have been on a hiring blitz. in fact, united airlines canceled no fli...

Sunday after thanksgiving, 2019. i asked tsa administrator david bicoffski and he said there could be a real possibility this time around. listen. >> this holiday travel will be the biggest holiday travel period we think since the pandemic. so, pre-pandemic on the sunday following thanksgiving, almost 3 million passengers. well be close to that this sunday following this thanksgiving. >> reporter: these numbers are really important because of a lot of uncertainty in the air travel space over the...