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In a
fastest growing economy like China, there is an aviation boom. With
the pace of the growth Aviation industry in China is facing acute
shortage of trained pilots to fulfill current demands. Training of new
pilots in China is expensive for Chinese people at a large and there
are less sufficient infrastructure tends to open the door for foreign
Pilots.
In China,
it takes four years and costs 630,000 yuan (75,904 USdollars) to train
a pilot, at least eight years and 60 million yuan (7.23 million US
dollars) to train a captain of a Boeing 737 or 757, and 10 years and
80 million yuan (about 9.64 million US dollars) to train a Boeing 777
or 747 captain.
Chinese airlines will need an additional 10,000 pilots over the next
five years, and the figure will reach 18,000 by 2015, said a senior
official of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC).
CAAC deputy director Wang Changshun called for the training of more
pilots to meet civil aviation demand, which is growing at a rate of 12
to 14 percent annually. Zheng Xiaoyong, president of Civil Aviation
Flight University of China, also said China needed an average 3,000
pilots each year over the next 10 years.
However, the country is capable of training only 2,000 pilots each
year, so the problem of insufficient supply of pilots could not be
resolved in a short period, he said.
Many Chinese airlines have begun looking for pilots overseas. Shenzhen
Airlines alone has recruited nearly 60 pilots from Brazil, Russia, the
United States and other countries, Beijing Daily reported.
According to the CAAC scheme, the civil aviation industry will grow by
more than 100 aircraft each year during the country's 11th Five-Year
(2005-2010) plan period. |
