Boeing released its 2017 Pilot and Technician Outlook at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2017, which projects a demand for more than 1.2 million pilots and technicians over the next 20 years.
Boeing forecasts that between 2017 and 2036, the world’s commercial aviation industry will require approximately:
- 637,000 new commercial airline pilots;
- 648,000 new commercial airline maintenance technicians;
- 839,000 new cabin crew members.
The 2017 outlook shows a slight increase of 3.2% for pilots over the 2016 outlook, and a slight decrease in the need for airline maintenance technicians (4.6%), primarily driven by the reduction in maintenance hours required on the 737 MAX.
Projected demand for new pilots, technicians and cabin crew by global region for the next 20 years is approximately:
For information about the Outlook, including how the data is compiled, visit: Boeing.com/Commercial/Market.
Ref the staged photo…This is not to say that there are no excellent black or female pilots. As the Tuskeegee fellas and combat zone ferry gals showed in WW2, skill and courage comes in all colors and genders And our bigoted disgrace of a President notwithstanding, even among transsexuals. Just that our recent history has been to require or strongly suggest that training institutions and companies place pursuit of student/employee racial and gender ratios matching those of the Nation ahead of enrollment/hiring based on individual effort, intelligence, and particular skills. We can survive such policies without substantial loss when applied to lawyers and bureaucrats but they WILL increase otherwise avoidable injury and death when applied to doctors and pilots.
“Fake news” strikes again. Both of those pictured are actors…not rated pilots. Has there EVER been such a cockpit combination? Perhaps, but not often. This is one more liberal media and PC corporate denigration of white American males and denial of their not just primary but essentially exclusive role in making America great. Further, affirmative action quota hiring of less or least qualified minorities and women to achieve “diversity” as advocated here represents not just an affront to equal opportunity and the American meritocracy but a DIRECT THREAT to aviation safety.
LOL! Get back to work.
Good factual retort…low Mark….NOT !! You want your family flying in an airliner with a two- person affirmative action crew who both received special tutoring and multiple checkride retakes to “graduate” last in their class ? Hey, maybe YOU do…feeling a certain camaraderie with underqualified placeholders. Not me. BE the best. DEMAND.the best.
Not ” met minimum standards.” They WILL have more incidents over the course of a career than those testing above them.
Nothing funny about that, low Mark,
Nah.