Qantas Airways’ regional domestic arm QantasLink has unveiled network cuts as a result of a pilot shortage that has also hit competitor Regional Express (Rex).

QantasLink says in a statement that it is making “further schedule changes on its Queensland and New South Wales routes due to the higher than normal pilot attrition rate”.

It says it will be temporarily suspending services on some routes and the schedule changes are expected to be in place until at least July.

Australia’s domestic market has been growing rapidly in part as a result of new competition and several airlines have been suffering from severe pilot shortages. Rex, for example, has unveiled several route cuts in recent weeks as a result of a pilot shortage.

QantasLink says in its statement that it is working to train more pilots and these measures should help “to restore pilot numbers over the next few months”.

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