alex230380

World's busiest airports by passenger traffic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As a recently licenced commercial, I'm reading these statistics (reliable source) and I see a general growth in the number of passenger travelling by airplane. I assume that more passengers means also more airplanes (or simply optimizing current assets and resources???), more airplanes means....more pilot jobs ??? Looks like, despite crises, people needs to move increasingly and this makes me cautiously optimistic.
What's your opinion?

truckflyer

Bigger airplanes means more passengers, and less pilots!

You will read what you want to read out of such stats! I know, been there, thought that, just to convince myself it was going to be ok and get better!

Luke SkyToddler

Not all pax growth is good for pilots, if you can't get a job there!

All the growth is in Asia and the middle east, which is great if you're a very experienced jet pilot and are interested in moving to China or Qatar, but it's not a place for newbies. The USA is a closed shop for US citizens. The only European airports on the list are the secure fortresses of the big legacy airlines (Heathrow, Charles-de-Gaulle, Frankfurt) and let's be honest you have more chance to win the Euro Millions than you do to get a job with BA, Air France or Lufthansa right now. Even more so if you're a non national.

You could even make a very strong argument, that an increase in passenger numbers in a place like Dubai or Singapore, what you're actually seeing is one less passenger that would probably have flown on a European airline 20 years ago.