Fort Worth-based American and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines are aggressively searching for new pilots, both hiring regional pilots eager to make the jump to...
The airline industry could be short 60,000 pilots within the decade, forcing carriers to throw in hundreds of thousands of dollars in sign-on bonuses and retention payments.
With the pandemic pushing thousands of pilots to retire early, airlines are facing a massive gap in the availability of people to fly commercial airliners. Aviation consulting firm Oliver Wyman is predicting there will be a shortage of about 19,000 pilots globally by the end of 2022, a number that will only grow to about 60,000 in 2029 as the number of Baby Boomer pilots who earned their wings in the military are forced to retire at 65.
After about three months of training in classrooms and flight simulators, pilots are sent out as first officers and paired with more experienced captains to fly from cities like El Paso and Laredo to DFW International Airport in 44- to 76-seat regional jets. Try finding that level of financial help in other occupations, even in high-demand, high-skill fields like surgeons and nursing where graduates are left on their own to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
“There is a bit of a pinch, a timing issue right now. We’re losing this group of captains and we don’t have pilots to replace them,” Wilson said. “It’s not because we can’t hire them. It’s just they can’t get their qualifications quick enough to become captains.” After she gets her commercial pilot license, she’ll still need to earn about 650 hours working as a flight instructor.
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