Past, Present & Future of Airline Pilot Hiring
Presented by Kit Darby, United Airlines Captain (ret.) & President of AIR, Inc.
Airline industry expert Kit Darby discusses the cyclical downturn that we are experiencing and the fact that we’ve seen this before and know hiring will return. He also stresses that this is the time to begin flight training so that prospective pilots will be qualified to enter the market when hiring increases in the near future.
Help wanted: Boeing says airlines need 1 million workers
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — September 16, 2010
Boeing says the airline industry will need to hire more than one million workers over the next 20 years to prepare for a wave of 30,000 new aircraft. The airlines will need to hire 466,650 pilots and 596,500 maintenance crew workers between 2010 and 2029, the aircraft maker said Thursday.
