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The major issue is probably government. The FAA has a mandatory retirement age of 65. It also requires substantially more hours to fly commercial than European
by danielfoster 3y ago
The major issue is probably government. The FAA has a mandatory retirement age of 65. It also requires substantially more hours to fly commercial than European countries. Both arguably marginally increase safety but at a very high cost.
But the airlines did lay off too many pilots during COVID.
- akiselev 3y agoThe total number of registered pilots (general aviation included) has fallen almost 10% since 2013 [1]. There are simply far fewer pilots in the pipeline, which effects everyone downstream including airlines and military, even while the number of instructors has increased. [1] https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/c...