Shortage
Every airline in the region is short of pilots, all are looking for experience,
The ways to get experienced pilots and to keep them are simple:
-Stop treating us as legal / illegal when calculating duty time limitations
and understand that some people can not sleep during the day to compensate
for night flights.
- Understand that we have families that need us too, especially when we
uproot them and bring them to a totally different culture.
- Income must be increased as demand for experienced pilots is far greater
than supply.
- A work pattern like 35/31 or 4 weeks on 2 weeks off can also be quite
attractive.
Shortage will increase for the coming 15 years, so the faster airlines
act, the better their chances of keeping their pilots, and maybe attracting
some more experienced ones.