Flight Crew Info

[pieinthesky1969]

Hello all. I am doing a project at the moment and I am trying to find the projected number of Flight Crew needed in South America, Africa, India, China and the Middle East over the next 10 years..specifically looking at the training of the indigenous population. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers

[Dave Clarke Fife]

You could try using one of the many search engines that abound and type in words like "future" "airline" "pilot" and "requirements".

I did and came up with this................


Long-term forecast demand for airline pilots and mechanics is significantly higher than it was before the global economic recession, according to new figures from Boeing's Training and Flight Services division. The company estimates that the average annual airline pilot demand for the next 20 years will be for 22,500 new pilots and 28,000 new mechanics to replace those retiring, and to cope with growth in the global airline fleet. Just two years ago in 2008, the Training and Flight Services division's forbear, Alteon, forecast that the average annual global industry needs for the 20 years from 2007 would be 18,000 pilots and 24,000 maintenance engineers.
North America heads the league in terms of the number of pilots it will need in the next two decades, at 112,000 (forecast by Alteon in 2008 at 98,000) and Europe follows at 97,000 (70,000). Other regional predicted requirements are China 61,000 (49,900), South-East Asia and Indonesia 34,000 (32,000), Latin America 32,000 (22,800), north-east Asia 19,000 (19,000), the Middle East 23,000 (17,500), the CIS 20,700 (11,500), Africa 13,200 (10,100) and Oceania 13,000 (7,200).

Hope it helps with your project

[pieinthesky1969]

Thanks Dave, of course I did that but it seemed to me there are so many different figures being banded about I wanted to see whether members had authorised figures.

Thanks for your assistance and I hope it will go well.

Brgds,

Pie