Pilot shortage hits regional airlines on 'unprecedented' demand | GulfNews.com:
"The demand for pilots in the Middle East is soaring after estimates showed that 40,000 will be needed over the next 20 years, mainly because of recent orders of over 500 aircrafts by some of the leading airlines in the region.
Abdullah Al Hammadi, the manager for the Pilot and National Cadet Pilot Programme at Emirates Airlines, said earlier forecasts of the shortage had come two years ago but figures are continuing to increase.
“They rang the bell a long time back but no one was listening because we could not see [the shortage] but now we can see it in China,” Al Hammadi said. “The shortage has already come to life in China where they started grounding aircraft because they don’t have pilots... and now we can feel the shortage coming to us.”"
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