Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:53 am
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Boeing's post-pandemic revised twenty year demand forecast:
Overflight wrote:Airbus' take: 'Flight operations services, such as pilot training and flight-planning solutions, will account for a $1.4 trillion cumulative spend over 20 years. Airbus also estimates there is a need for 550,000 new pilots in the next 20 years to cope with fleet growth.'
G-BLEW wrote:PPPS I have a great deal of sympathy with @Flintstone's view that TRs should not be paid for by the pilot. Ironically, I think the practice is probably more rife in the bizjet world than it is in the airline world.
Ian
With respect to the honourable gentleman, I disagree.
G-BLEW wrote:It's great that newbie biz jet pilots get their TRs paid for by employers.
G-JWTP wrote:Hmm,
Aren't CAE another ' pilot training ' outfit?
G-JWTP
Josh wrote:Let’s break it down. They say the world needs an impressive 219,000 pilots in 10 years. That’s only 2,190 per year. Those jobs will be globally distributed, with I suspect the majority of them in the US and the Far East. If we were to say conservatively 25% of those jobs were in Europe, that’s c500 jobs a year in Europe. That is barely the sum of pilots BA and Virgin made redundant this year.
Should illustrate to you the state of the nation.
Josh wrote:Let’s break it down. They say the world needs an impressive 219,000 pilots in 10 years. That’s only 2,190 per year. Those jobs will be globally distributed, with I suspect the majority of them in the US and the Far East. If we were to say conservatively 25% of those jobs were in Europe, that’s c500 jobs a year in Europe. That is barely the sum of pilots BA and Virgin made redundant this year.
Should illustrate to you the state of the nation.