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Flight schools today cannot get students through flight training fast enough. There's a huge shortage of graduates from aircraft maintenance schools (AMT schools). Air traffic control schools need students for FAA jobs. Now is the time to get into the aviation industry by attending a flight school, helicopter school, or aircraft mechanic school. There's also high demand for graduates of aircraft dispatcher schools and aircraft type rating schools.
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Why it's still a good time to attend flight schools
With the slowing of the U.S. economy and uncertainty in the near future, many prospective pilots are asking "is it a good time to start flight training?" The answer is a resounding "YES"! In fact, it may be one of the best times ever to become a professional pilot. Although the major U.S. airlines may not be hiring, and some, in fact, are laying off pilots, jobs at regional carriers such as Comair, Airnet Express, SkyWest, and many more are hiring pilots. And the stiff hiring prerequisites found in the past have been loosened recently as the regional airlines compete for pilots in a field where a pilot shortage is actually occurring. And the U.S. is one of only several growing markets for pilots. If you're willing to work abroad, many more opportunities await you.
Demand for pilots remains high for 20 years
"The world's airlines will need more than 17,000 flight schools graduates each year for the next 20 years to fill the seats of the airplanes on order...the experience minimums some of the airlines are now requiring for pilots have tumbled...the average now is 250 total hours and 25 multiengine, and a few require only the commercial rating." (source: Flying Magazine - Flying Magazine Flight Training Section)
Are airline pilot jobs still growing?
According to the Air Transport Action Group (www.atag.org)"2.0 billion passengers rely every year on the world's airlines for business and vacation travel and over 29 million tonnes of high-value freight are carried by air. Growth of air transport largely depends on global and regional economic cycles. It is also heavily affected by acts of war or terrorism - for example the Gulf war of 1991 or the events of 11 September 2001. But the long-term demand trend is always positive and the figures for passengers and freight are likely to double again within the next 12 to 15 years according to demand."
Medium term flight training outlook still positive
According to FlightGlobal.com's David Learmount, "The gloomy current airline market may cast a long shadow over the training industry, but historic experience of market cycles combined with contemporary economic trends present a much more complex and - in the medium term - promising picture for the airlines and flight training organizations. The world's financial institutions will, in due course, sort out their self-created credit woes, the oil prices will find a level that the surviving airlines will learn to live with, the global economy will recover, and the human race will rediscover its irrepressible urge to travel. Meanwhile the training industry is being presented with new tools that will confer advantages not widely available now.
Alteon (Boeing's worldwide training organization) forecasts that, from 2007 to 2027, airlines will take delivery of 29,400 new aircraft to replace old fleet and cope with the growth in demand for air travel. This, says Sherry Carbary, Alteon's President, will require an average of 18,000 new pilots and 24,000 maintainers a year to be trained to replace those who retire and also to crew and service the increasing numbers of aircraft in the world fleet. Only by training at those annual rates will the industry be able to meet the estimated need over the next 20 years for a total of 360,000 new pilots and 480,000 new maintainers, Alteon calculates.
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