Interesting thought. The massive start up and expansion of civil aviation in the Middle East and Far East in the late 70's to mid 90's did draw quite a lot of British and American pilots into the expat scene. I had rather thought the process was stagnant or in decline.
The prospect of the same happening with the emergene of India and China is mouth watering.
Though one wonders will those countries adopt more of an in-country training progamme - rather than rely so heavily on expats? Just from a guess culturally I would think they more likley to put into place robust cadet schemes.
Fingers crossed though. It wouldn't take much more than about 1,000 experienced pilots to go expat for there to be a slight shortage in the UK.
That's be nice for us all.
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