US airlines told to stop DEI-hiring pilots

Americans care about flight safety, not how the crew “looks like or their gender,” US Transportation Secretary has said

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a sweeping mandate requiring all commercial airlines to formally commit to merit-based hiring for pilots, explicitly barring the use of race or sex as factors in recruitment.

The directive, delivered via a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations Specification (OpSpec)...