The Dominican

It will have to happen, the situation in Russia is not different than the situation in Japan, massive retirements coupled with growth and the pilot making machine not producing enough warm bodies to replace them, but in Russia there is another aspect to it all, the reason why the salaries have gone up from a couple of thousand dollars a month to what it is now, is not because their airline managers are nice guys, it is because in the last decade in top of massive retirements they have experienced a huge brain drain, and the pilots that have gone out of the country to get other better paying jobs are the ones they desperately need, those that actually speak English, the same thing in Malasia, India etc. those that have the best skills overall are the ones that venture out of their country in search of jobs, and just like you have seen in Malasia, India, Thailand for example, the T&C's for the locals have increased in recent years.