Airlines will need 1 million workers

TOP said:
Wonder if someone is trying to get the retirement age bumped again? :bandit: :rotfl:
Reported pilot shortage + lobbyist + politicians = retirement age increase… To 70 we go.
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Oh, there's already a push for Age-70.

I sheet you not.
 
The mechanic thing might have a bit of truth to it though. We all know that America's math, science, and vocational education is in the crapper. Well, combine that with a generation that just doesn't have the guts to take on a blue-collar job and you have a shortage of good mechanics. Though, with as much as airline maintenance is being outsourced to unlicensed personnel overseas, it may all add up to no shortage at all.
 
1 million employees worldwide over the next two decades, I'll buy that.

That is not only pilots, controllers, and mechanics, but gate agents, secrateries, parts clerks, ect.



If they had said 1 million pilots, they would be on crack.
 
Minuteman said:
"So we were doin' paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me & Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles."

"Bill Roberts?"

"No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we're approaching the wreck, and there's this spherical object a restin' in the highway. And it's not a piece of the car."
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What?
 
z987k said:
We know its you.
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Not me man. At my initial plan, I would have been out of this profession in another 13 years when I was 53. Then it became 60. Then, well, since everyone else is staying longer, I have to stay longer as well to get a couple of years on something "big".

That rule change cost me 13 years of my life. I know it's a very selfish way of seeing it, but I hope I don't go from the cockpit straight to a Tom Cruse "Hovaround".
 
Doug Taylor said:
Not me man. At my initial plan, I would have been out of this profession in another 13 years when I was 53. Then it became 60. Then, well, since everyone else is staying longer, I have to stay longer as well to get a couple of years on something "big".

That rule change cost me 13 years of my life. I know it's a very selfish way of seeing it, but I hope I don't go from the cockpit straight to a Tom Cruse "Hovaround".
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Yeah those space shuttle hours are hard to come by.
 
Oh, HOVERound! :) I thought it was H to the is Izzoh, V to the...

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There is a finite amount of money that can be extracted from a population base to purchase air travel. Each stakeholder; Airlines, Labor, Aircraft Manufactures, Government, etc, has an interest to thwart the others from taking money out of the bucket.

On the labor front, more job seekers reduces wage demands. It is in the interest of non-labor stakeholders to ensure a big supply of workers to keep wages low. Hence you will always see covert propaganda from the non-labor stakeholders to keep labor fingers from reaching in the bucket of money.
 
Minuteman said:
It's the fear of the reaper. Given the mortality rate for airline pilots in the six months after they retire, they're trying to cheat death.
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It's true.

We generally don't last that long after we retire.
 
I always figured it was the sudden, strange shift to getting almost all the sleep you want and the cumulative shellacking to your innards that coffee has provided over the years (not that there's anything wrong with that). :)
 
seaav8tor said:
Radiation.......

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/091208-airplane-lightning-radiation.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/0907-flying_and_radiation_risk.htm
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Actually it's VERY common for retirees in all fields to die within 6-24 months of quiting. The sudden change in lifestyle can be extreamly stressful, and some people can't handle it.

When I was in the Corps, we had a E-9 retire and die 12 weeks later from a heart attack due to "lack of stress".
 
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