Originally Posted by
Falck
Pilot shortage???
That is what Airbus and Boeing say.
Think about it? If you produce toy airplanes. And you like to sell them worldwide? You know in order to sell them you
have to keep the price down. So you want to make sure if your toy airplane needs batteries that the batteries are cheap.
otherwise you will not sell your toyplane.
So you create a world with to many pilots on the market. Cheap batteries. That works both for Boeing and Airbus plus it works for the airlines.
In the end it is the passengers paying for the Boeing or Airbus in their ticket price.. And they like it cheap.
A lot of flying is needed for business but a lot is also luxury article. Holidays, citytrips etc. So if people cannot or are not
willing to pay the ticket price which they don't have to. That is a big portion of the Airline passengers. They don't have to fly.
You have to attract them on board with cheap tickets. Means cheap labor.
As well getting more women in the flightdeck. They can pilot just as good as man. But is only 97% or so of pilot
community. The reason to use the media and recruit more women in the Flightdeck is the same. As above.
Ask and demand. The more pilots no matter what gender the lower/cheaper their wages. If you can attract even 3% more
female pilots you don't have to increase the wages.
Airbus started their flightschool recently. Boeing was behind MPL with their Alteon training company. All in order to sell their toys.
As long as pilots have to pay for their training, there is to many.
It should be funded by the healthy Airline.
Falck
Truer words were rarely spoken. Well done for explaining large scale advanced economic machinery in terms everyone can grasp.
Aviation in Lady Europa is about to change drastically in my view. DY is struggling, ezy has stopped DEC recruitment and looks on their careers site as if f/o recruitment is down quite a lot as well. Ryr will need pilots for some time yet, and I guess they shall get them as the only large operator recruiting for all positions. Flag carriers are taking pilots, but not enough to keep disturbing the job market. Wow/germania/monarch/air Berlin gone with Thomas Cook apparently being put in the shop window and alitalia flying way too close to the sun for way too long.
I say gone will be the days of cadet to captain to trainer in the span of 6-7 years, probably never to be seen again as aviation in the eurozone has matured (loco at full possible expansion, legacy adjusted to correct market size)
Get in to a stable operator in the seat you want to be NOW. A recession is on the horizon, things may well look very different on the other side of it.