Chinese airlines are buying foreign flying schools and poaching pilots, amplifying an acute talent shortage that threatens to send the global aviation industry into crisis.
“The growth in Chinese aviation is unprecedented in our lifetimes and probably in history,” said Paul Jebely, a Hong-Kong-based lawyer specialising in aviation. “There have been more aircraft ordered than there are pilots to fly them. ”
The squeeze on flying talent has triggered flight cancellations, dented profits and threatened the industry’s ambitious growth targets around the world.
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