United Airways is asking pilots to take unpaid day off subsequent month, citing late-arriving plane from Boeing, in response to a notice despatched to pilots.

It is one other instance of how Boeing’s prospects say the producer’s manufacturing issues and security disaster are impacting their development plans. The provide comes after United and different airways lately have clamored for extra pilots when the Covid-19 pandemic journey hunch ended and demand surged.

“As a consequence of current adjustments to our Boeing deliveries, the remaining 2024 forecast block hours for United have been considerably lowered,” the United chapter of the Air Line Pilots Affiliation, the pilots’ union, mentioned in a notice to members Friday. “Whereas the supply points encompass our 787 and 737 fleets, the impression will have an effect on different fleets as effectively.”

United confirmed the request for voluntary unpaid day off. The airline beforehand mentioned it might pause pilot hiring this spring due to plane arriving late from Boeing, CNBC reported final month.

The union mentioned it expects United to supply extra day off “for the summer time bid intervals and probably into the autumn.”

United was contracted to obtain 43 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes and 34 Max 9 fashions this yr, however now expects to obtain 37 and 19, respectively, in response to an organization submitting in February. It had anticipated Boeing would additionally hand over 80 Max 10s this yr and 71 subsequent yr. That mannequin hasn’t but been licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and the airline eliminated them from the supply schedule as a result of it’s “unable to precisely forecast the anticipated supply interval,” it mentioned within the submitting.

United CEO Scott Kirby has been among the many most vocal concerning the manufacturing issues and supply delays at Boeing, together with most lately the disaster stemming from a door plug that blew out of an almost new Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by an Alaska Airways flight that was at about 16,000 toes.

Boeing did not instantly remark.

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun final week introduced he would depart on the finish of the yr as a part of a broad management shake-up, which included the departures of the board chairman and the pinnacle of Boeing’s business airplanes unit.