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Old 23rd Dec 2017, 00:22
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gulliBell
 
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Having just come out of 3 years as a trainer in China. The training pipeline there (that is, once the cadets finish their initial training outside China they come to us for type rating training on to their allocated fleet type), the system there is getting stressed. People are working longer and longer hours to achieve the business outcomes. The bottleneck will be in China. Whilst Chinese companies might have Australian flight training schools on their acquisition radar, the limiting factor will be the pilot throughput at the Chinese end. No point buying Australian flight schools and pumping out more CPL's if there in no spare capacity in China for making them airline useful.
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