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It needs to evaluate, however, how many are being used, so enough pilots and flight attendants are available during the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period.

Roughly 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job in August seeking better wages and compensation.

There was some so-called noise in the report, TD notes, such as the impact of a flight attendants’ strike and drought conditions hampering electricity generation.

Services-producing industries also edged lower, the first decline in six months in part thanks to a flight attendants strike that weighed on air travel and the first fall in wholesale trade in four months.

Kaniecki said he has treated about a dozen pilots and over 100 flight attendants for brain injuries after exposure to fumes on aircraft over the last 20 years.