Originally Posted by
atpcliff
China needs 9,000 airline pilots in the next 3 years. THey produce 1,000 per year.
India is worse:
They need 11,000 airline pilots in the next 3 years.
Last year, they produced 150.
Asia is forecast to increase the number of freighter aircraft by 340%, to 419, through 2020. Who will fly them?
Alteon opened the Changi facility last year and has the capacity to train 6000 pilots per year. I can't say if that's 6000 zero time ab initio students, I would think not, but the capacity is huge. There are some heavy hitters in that region that will meet the training needs eventually. In the meantime one has to ask if $128K is fair market value?
The goal will obviously be to bring that rate down (substantially) with homegrown talent.