Originally Posted by
WingsofRoffa
As a pilot in the sift for 2 months now I would happily fill one of the 800 spaces!
Apparently only taking a handful of pilots on each IOT at the moment... one presumes down to the training backlog.
In Parliament this afternoon, it seems the 800 pilot shortage is over the next 20 years and relates to training slots. The shortage relate s directly with a high overseas requirement. They are looking to address this by reducing the number of overseas slots. Capita then came in for some stick with some mind blowing stats. Besides a large backlog in processing applicants, many of whom drift off to other jobs, they have issued a £750m rights issue and have debts of about £1.5bn. The Minister is confident that we are not looking at another Carillion.