The worldwide commercial aviation industry would need an extra
255,000 pilots by 2027 to sustain its rapid growth according to a
10-year forecast published by training company CAE Inc.
More than half of the required pilots have not yet begun training,
the report adds, storing up potential problems as the industry braces
for an increase in passenger air traffic that is expected to double the
size of the commercial air transport industry in the next 20 years.
“Rapid fleet expansion and high pilot retirement rates create a
further need to develop 180,000 first officers into new airline
captains, more than in any previous decade,’’ said the report by CAE,
which trains pilots for airlines around the world.
“The shortage of pilots is a problem today, there’s demand today, so
people need to start building a strategy with us or other professional
academies to be able to build that pipeline,’’ Nick Leontidis, CAE’s
Group President for civil aviation training solutions told journalists
at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday.
To meet demand, Leontidis said CAE would seek to grow its own training academy business, rather than make acquisitions.
Pilot unions in the United States have said low wages and limited
benefits for entry-level positions are deterring a new generation of
potential aviators from pursuing the career.
In the United States, training requirements also are a hurdle for many would-be pilots.
The United States is the only country to require co-pilots to have at
least 1,500 flight hours unless they have experience flying planes in
the military or are graduates of certain specialised programs.
According to the U.N.’s aviation agency, which sets global standards
typically adopted by regulators from its 191-member countries, it takes a
minimum of about 250 hours to obtain a commercial pilot license for
work as a co-pilot.
By contrast, 1,500 hours is the minimum required to become a captain
under norms set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO),
the U.N. agency that supports the development of global aviation.
While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration previously had
followed ICAO norms, the 1,500-hour requirement for co-pilots was
imposed following the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407, a regional jet,
in 2009 that killed 50 people.
The 1,500-hour mandate is supported by pilots’ unions as a way to improve air safety.
However, regional airlines and some aviation experts said that the
tougher standard does not make flying any safer and has exacerbated the
pilot shortage by making the training process longer and costly
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