“We have not met our goal of painting one plane a month, and the reasoning behind that is, we have had several issues with long-term maintenance on airplanes lately,” Little said at last week’s Clearfield-Jefferson Counties Airport Authority’s teleconference meeting. “Believe it or not, even though we’ve got seven or eight more airplanes than we do lines of flight, we have had a shortage of airplanes the last several months. And again, we’re hoping that ends in January.”

Little noted that’s not due to a lack of planning on Southern’s part. Rather, he said, it’s because of a supply chain issue.

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