Airlines will need 1 million workers

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Help wanted: Boeing says airlines need 1 million workers


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Boeing says the airline industry will need to hire more than one million workers over the next 20 years to prepare for a wave of 30,000 new aircraft. The airlines will need to hire 466,650 pilots and 596,500 maintenance crew workers between 2010 and 2029, the aircraft maker said Thursday. That means the industry will need an average of 23,300 new pilots and 30,000 maintenance workers annually from now until 2029, the company said. Our challenge is adapting our training to engage the future generation of people who will fly and maintain the more than 30,000 airplanes that will be delivered by 2029," said Roei Ganzarski, chief customer officer for Boeing Training & Flight Services, in a statement.
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Number 8.
I've had some jobs that sucked in my life and flying for the airlines was not one of them. Hard work? Short order cook in the summer working 10 hour days. Working as a diver, sitting on the boat in the Long Island sound on a drizzly, cold October morning and thinking about how cold that initial rush of water in the wet suit was going to be. At least I drank alot of coffee so I'd have to pee right away and that would warm things up. 11B in the Army sitting at an ambush site during a sleet storm in November. Of course the OPFOR realized how bad things were and never showed up.
So if you want to fly for a living there are worse things you could do with your life and harder ways to make a living. Just go into it with your eyes open and without delusions. Don't be like the FO I once flew with- he hated flying as a student pilot, he hated flying as a CFI, he hated being a regional pilot, but by golly when he got to the Big D things would be gravy. I'm sure he's somewhere on this board pissing and moaning about how things suck at the Big D now.
 
Remember people there never is a shortage of any type of worker. Just a shortage or workers willing to exchange their time at the currently offered price. But with pilots price still doesn't matter, because there are ALWAYS a thousand other people willing to do it for 10-50% less.
 
Blackhawk said:
Number 8.
I've had some jobs that sucked in my life and flying for the airlines was not one of them.
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I used to work in a plastics factory. Machine operator, 12 hour shifts from 6pm to 6am. It was the most repetitive, smelly, accident-prone (okay, that part was probably caused by my own klutziness) job of complete drudgery I have ever experienced. Every day (well, night in my case working the overnight shift) was like this, every single day, day after day.

At Eagle, there were some long days, 14-16 hours on duty with 7 legs in the ATR in the middle of the brutal ORD & MQT winters.. yeah, those were some miserable days, but every day wasn't like that at the airlines.
 
I wonder who calculated those numbers! :hiya:
2029-2010 = 19 years. 466,650 / 19 = 24,560 pilots per year =~ 2000 pilots per month. :insane:

If I owned a flight school, I'd be jumping all over this! :rotfl:
 
Gajre539 said:
I wonder who calculated those numbers! :hiya:
2029-2010 = 19 years. 466,650 / 19 = 24,560 pilots per year =~ 2000 pilots per month. :insane:

If I owned a flight school, I'd be jumping all over this! :rotfl:
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Bingo. Where do you think news outlets like this get their facts? From people in the industry. Ever think they might be getting fed warped information?

"Believe nothing that you hear, and only half of what you see."
 
MQAAord said:
At Eagle, there were some long days, 14-16 hours on duty with 7 legs in the ATR in the middle of the brutal ORD & MQT winters.. yeah, those were some miserable days, but every day wasn't like that at the airlines.
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All that was missing from the ATRs were fuzzy dice hanging from the standby compass... and I think a few of ours had them. I was irritated when I moved to the RJ... more pubs, more charts, but I had to get a smaller bag as the ATR pubs back was too big.
 
flyboywbl said:
I used to work in a gear factory milling gears with ex cons, talk about some stories!
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"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."
 
Funny that Boeing did not address that orders for larger and newer aircraft are then off set by carriers dumping smaller and older aircraft in their fleets and "orders" can be cancelled/reduced if needed by said carriers as well. They also don't mention the thousands of pilots currently on furlough nor those already in the hiring pools, nor just the replacement of pilots due to retirements. Let's not even mention that some pilots will be flying past 60 now. It's not like there will be any huge expansion going on. It's very misleading to make such a blanket statement. They also don't break up their curent orders by the US and then by other countries for a more realistic picture either. Oh boy, KLM is geting new aircraft. How does that help a pilot here? Maybe they made this release to boost their stock. Look at their orders in detail for the 787 and 747-8 for example.....the majority of them are to foreign countries thus far. Then compare the number ordered by US carriers.
 
LMFAO.... So if Boeing is sitting on 30,000 aircraft orders then I'm jumping on that stock today.
 
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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