By: Bryce Hunt, Taylor Toews and Jayda Boily

With a country-wide flight ban in place for most of 2020, numerous pilots were laid off by their respective airlines. We spoke with a former WestJet pilot to go through the process of knowing your job is going to get cut and to learn how airlines dealt with the situation. We also spoke with an aspiring pilot to understand how the lack of job security can scare away future pilots.