United Airlines boosts hiring with 2nd job fair this month

United Airlines has held two job fairs in less than a month at its Chicago headquarters, hoping to add hundreds more new staff members to about 1,000 hired earlier in August. “We have 500 new airplanes coming to United Airlines over the next few years,” amounting to “an airplane every three or four days for us, so we need folks to help work those aircraft,” said Omar Iris, vice president of United’s operations at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.