JetBlue pilot salary: What the low-cost airline pays its flight deck Read More Where is United Airlines headquartered? What is its history 15,000 pilots fly for United — only Delta’s pilot fleet is larger, at 17,319. Founded in 1926, United began as Varney Air Lines, an Idaho-based...
TheSummer From Hellwas the United Airlines pilot work slowdown in 2000. It was disruptive enough that my own memories of flight delays and cancellations are still fresh. But it’s the United’s 1985 pilot strike that still engenders bitterness, thirty five years later. United’s pilots stru...