United Airlines plans adding 15,000 workers

United Airlines is eyeing the hiring of 15,000 workers nationwide — including thousands at San Francisco airport — after the air carrier decided to buy scores and possibly hundreds of Boeing jetliners.

The air carrier says it has placed an order for at least 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, “the largest widebody order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history.” The airline also says it has the option to buy another 100 of the massive jets.

All of this adds up to plenty of hiring at the seven major hubs operated by United Airlines, including San Francisco International Airport. United Airlines intends to add 2,200 jobs at San Francisco International Airport, the airline said.

The hiring efforts represent a welcome counterpoint to the brutal downturn in the travel industry in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and economic collapse in the early spring of 2020.

Separately, United plans to add 2,600 jobs at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and another 2,100 at Newark Liberty International Airport in the New York City area.

United also aims to add 1,800 jobs in Houston, 1,800 in Denver, 1,100 in Washington D.C. and 400 in Los Angeles.

Pilots, flight attendants, maintenance workers that include mechanics, and airport operations workers that include customer service representatives and gate agents are expected to be among those hired at United Airlines hubs such as San Francisco.

“The airline now expects to take delivery of about 700 new narrow and widebody aircraft by the end of 2032, including an average of more than two every week in 2023 and more than three every week in 2024,” United stated. siliconvalley.com