Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
World needs
pilots! Record growth leads to record need
Will air travels
be as safe, comfortable, and punctual, if they are, as today in the next
decades?
There will be 13,000
new commercial aircraft added to the globe by 2032. To fly that many new airplanes,
nearly 200,000 new pilots are needed. Are there enough training facility and
capacity in the market, not to mention the candidates who want to spend their life
in the tiny cockpit?
Furthermore, in
order to keep that many aircraft up in the air, about a half a million new technicians
are required to maintain and service them. That seems more challenging than
recruiting and training new pilots because those mechanics have to work outside
day and night, any time of year, no matter how severe the weather or climate
conditions are. It is also quite surprising to know that while it takes mere 18
months to train a copilot, which sounds amazingly short to most passengers, it
requires 60 months to train a certified mechanic who can sign off a plane
certificate for takeoff. And their pays and status aren’t as good as the ones
of pilots.
Enjoy reading and
learning about what sorts of shortages the commercial aviation industry is
going to face.
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