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United Airlines is spreading its wings into new territory with the opening of its own flight school and commitment to increasing diversity in the flight deck through a multi-million-dollar scholarship partnership with JPMorgan Chase, the company announced this week.
Both United and JPMorgan Chase, the airline’s credit card issuing partner are committing to matching $1.2 million in scholarships for a total endowment of $2.4 million dollars.
In launching United Aviate Academy, the Chicago-based airline becomes the first major U.S. airline to own its own flight school and said it is committed to ensuring that 50 percent of the pilot trainees are persons of color or women, both groups that are underrepresented among the ranks of pilots.
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When companies publicly announced a commitment to hiring women and people of color, back in the day, wasn’t that called affirmative action? It looks like some wannabe woke corporations are bringing it back in the name of diversity hiring. United Airlines is bringing it back 2021-style by pledging to train 5,000 new pilots by 2030, of which at least half will be women and people of color.
United Airlines is the only major U.S. airline to own a flight school. United Aviate Academy will begin accepting applications for the training program for commercial airline pilots. All 5,000 pilots will be guaranteed a job with United after they complete the requirements of the Aviate program. The academy has scholarship commitments from United Airlines and JPMorgan Chase. It expects to enroll 100 students in 2021. JPMorgan Chase, the airline’s credit card partner, has committed $1.2 million to support women and people of color who are accepted to United Aviate Aca
https://www.afinalwarning.com/510187.html (Natural News) United Airlines is looking to radically transform the company by eliminating thousands of white men from the cockpit. To United Airlines, it doesn’t matter how committed, qualified or skilled a potential pilot candidate is. When deciding who to hire and who to train to fly their planes, it all comes down to fulfilling diversity quotas on gender and skin color. United no longer provides an equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds, gender, and race. They are looking to discriminate against potential candidates if they are white or male.
“Over the next decade, United will train 5,000 pilots who will be guaranteed a job with United, after they complete the requirements of the Aviate program,” said United CEO Scott Kirby. “And our plan is for half of them to be women and people of color.”
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