work in the private sector. pilot training can cost more than $100,000. jonathan runs the flight academy. it s a combination of different things. pilots retiring, the pandemic. so now just to train the new pilots is going to take long time. reporter: some airlines are now training future pilots themselves. american training in the next five years from their own aviation academy. instructor shelly thomas is planning to become a commercial pilot herself. as soon as i realized there was a pilot shortage, and a lot of my mentors at united kind of brought it up. reporter: jetblue has a similar program. no prior experience required. finally i have a direction. reporter: some are letting those over 65 back into the
is one mission, life. i get to keep her. we get to have her and enjoy her. and she gets to grow up, which is the best gift anyone could ever give. airlines feel like this could be their most profitable summer as people take to the skies, but there is one problem. there s not enough pilots. the problem, of course, is finding enough people to fit into these seats who want to do this as a profession. to sort of put a fine point on the problem, consider what jetblue announced this morning, that they are not going to grow in the next year as an airline.
there and make that sort of threat, it is beyond shocking. ashleigh? we re about 1:55 or so from the start of that wake. i m going to ask you to keep an eye out for that moment which is always so poignant when officer ramos casket is brought into the church behind you. hopefully we ll be able to get our live cameras trained on this image as well. in the meantime, can you repeat for me i heard great reporti reporting earlier from jetblue who is willing to bring people from around the country to the place where you are. reporter: yes. jetblue is working with their partner airlines because they don t fly overseas to bring officer liu s family from china to the u.s. separately, the airline here in the u.s. is has offered anyone on their route, law enforcement, that they would bring two members of each law enforcement department from around the country to new york. 600 people, approximately, is
what jetblue is going to bring into new york. that will be part of that 25,000 nypd is preparing for. i m just looking down the street here because we believe that the casket is arriving soon. if we could, i want to show you the church one more time. if you come all the way over here, they have blocked off the road here for the first time today in anticipation of the casket arriving. so it is really beginning to be a much more intense period of activity here at christ tabernacle church in queens. it looks like a lot of the officers in your shot, miguel, are in formal uniform. you can see the white gloves that are worn during somber occasions. i want to ask you about those there on duty. any time there is an instance