{"id":1499,"date":"2011-09-21T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2011-09-21T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:08:51","slug":"asia-pacific-short-on-pilots-says-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/09\/asia-pacific-short-on-pilots-says-boeing.html","title":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific short on pilots says Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Hong Kong:<\/span> Asia-Pacific&#8217;s booming aviation sector is facing a serious pilot shortfall with some carriers forced to cut flights and ground new planes because of the gap, US aviation giant Boeing said on Monday.<br \/>\nThe region will need more than 180,000 in extra pilots and almost 250,000 new technicians over the next two decades to meet demand, with China facing the most pressing shortfalls, it said.<br \/>\nCurrently there are about 60,000 pilots and 46,000 technicians in Asia-Pacific.<br \/>\n&#8220;The question is where will (airlines) get all of these people and how?&#8221; Roei Ganzarski, chief customer officer of Boeing&#8217;s Flight Services unit, told reporters in Hong Kong.<br \/>\n&#8220;Some airlines have grounded flights or reduced flights (due to the shortage)&#8230;(carriers) have had to ground brand new airplanes.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe did not name any carriers but said countries affected by the shortfall included India, the Philippines and Indonesia.<br \/>\nShortages were also happening in other regions, and the global aviation sector needed more than one million pilots and technicians by 2030, but tight supply was most acute in Asia, Ganzarski added.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">19\/09\/11 AFP<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international-business\/asia-short-on-pilots-says-boeing\/articleshow\/10040378.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong: Asia-Pacific&#8217;s booming aviation sector is facing a serious pilot shortfall with some carriers forced to cut flights and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}