With travel and vaccination rates increasing, United Airlines plans to hire 300 pilots

As the nation’s vaccination rate increases and demand for travel heats up, United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAL) said it’s going to hire hundreds of pilots.

The Chicago-based airline, which has a major presence in Houston, is the first U.S. carrier to announce pilot-hiring plans.

United has been slowly ramping up its U.S. operations.

It recently reinitiated service at New York’s JFK International Airport and added flights out of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, as airline officials said they’ve seen “the strongest…