2025年1月21日 · Sept. 17, 2024 – U.S. Air Force calls pilot shortage a “chronic problem.” July 22, 2024 – Boeing projects global need for 674,000 pilots through 2043. April 19, 2023 – CNN reports a “tsunami” of pilot retirements that will worsen the pilot shortage. July 1, 2022 – NPR predicts the pilot shortage will add to summer travel chaos.

2025年1月28日 · In 2024, the pilot shortage estimate rose to approximately between 649,000-674,000 new pilots for 2024-2043, according to various industry reports. Here, factors like ongoing retirement, fragmented pilot training pipeline, and higher-than-expected air travel recovery post-pandemic played their part.

2025年1月24日 · The Air Force has long struggled with a shortage of fighter pilots, with 1,150 empty billets in 2024, and aviators leaving the service in droves.

3 天之前 · These facilities direct air traffic for some of the busiest airports in the United States, including Newark, J.F.K. and LaGuardia, which handled a combined 1.2 million flights in the last year ...

2024年1月10日 · The aviation sector has been hit in recent times with a growing demand for new pilots as the airline industry continues to experience global shortages in the number of certified pilots. In...

2023年5月17日 · Publicly available data on hiring, employment, and wages indicate strong current demand for pilots. Meeting that demand has been particularly difficult for regional airlines—which generally serve smaller communities—and has, according to them, affected their operations.

2023年4月19日 · The US airline industry is about to be hit with a “tsunami of pilot retirements” that will further the nation’s pilot shortage, limiting flight availability for passengers and putting...

2023年2月9日 · Airlines have complained about a shortage for several years, but they made it worse during the pandemic by encouraging pilots to take early retirement when air travel collapsed in 2020. Helane Becker, an analyst for Cowen who has tracked the issue closely, estimates that 10,000 pilots have left the field since then.

We now expect global aviation to be short nearly 80,000 pilots by 2032, absent a downturn in future demand and/or strenuous efforts by the industry to bolster the supply of pilots. With the lifting of COVID-19-related sanctions on air travel, demand rebounded more quickly in North America than elsewhere.

2024年1月2日 · Union lobbying raised qualifications for new pilots, causing a shortage and negotiating leverage. Industry looks to automation and flight school graduates for relief.