The industry is experiencing the worst moment in historyórich generated by the pandemic of COVID-19, but ¿It is a good time to start the pilot career?
We find ourselves as a planet wrapped in a pandemic that does not seem to come to an end and the industry toédo along with tourism have turned out to be the más affected.
In this context, several people have written to me to ask about the pilot career, cóto start and especially if the moment is good or not to start studying.
As blog some posts have been written as guíA for pilot candidates:
And included on Cóto get a job in this professionón:
¿It is a good time to start the pilot race?
It all depends from the perspective that this question is seen.
For example the associationón BritáAerulo Pilot Nicaídenies – Balpa for its acronym in Englishés in a recent and poléMICO COMMUNICATED INDó the next:
«Enóto beíand Irresponsable Si shitéwe bouquet some más to warn people who consider delaying their flight training at this time»
La situationón es críTica and Europe is not the exceptionón:
“There are currently 10.000 unemployed commercial pilots across Europe, included 1.600 pilots in the UK. Many pilots están working part -time or with a reduced salary to save jobs. And there are already around 200 trainees at flight training schools who were on their way to easyJet jobs who now have no clear route even to obtain a license, much less a job»
Práctically, They warn students so that they do not start their pilot career given the low employment opportunities at present and great debts that this professionón leave, but it also reveals a highly key point:
“We urge potential pilots to get experience in another professionón first, What postpondá Any trainingón until the industry isé In a M formás sólida, provide additional skills and experiences and alsoén gives you another víto which to resort. Who wants to move on, dutyíTo consider the formation routeón modular, which offers the opportunity to learn and work in other fields ”.
Faced with a crisis like the one we live in, We must learn to evolve and not because of the negative panorama that we are seeing from BALPA, but alsoén why usuallyñWe must fight to achieve them.
It is therefore, that within thisón a great opportunity is presented for those that usuallyñto fly that before starting their career they can carry out additional studies, preferably related to aviationón and if not, another professionón personal taste.
Hereí A complicated part comes, study a career prior to being a pilot, It implies entering additional or even double investment expensesón, but beá A lifeguard in case a situation will be presented againón complicated for industryérea.
Spaghettién, have another professionón o tíTulle is very well seen by the selection processesóN of many airlineíneas on a global level, So your CV winá that stands out on the rest of the candidates.
The panorama is notá negative forever
A key point, is that the situationón that we live not to followá así forever and it is expected that in the PRówe moan 5 añyou resume the levels of 2019, moment in which many pilots will haveán entered to retirementón, others there will beán changed their career and returná High demand for pilots (Until the Díto arrive, A second career is the opción).
While the aerosolípassenger neas have reduced staff, the aerosolsíNeas loaders have been one of the few winners of the crisis and hiringón of pilots for these companies is growing.
«Despite the decreaseón in the short term in the númere pilot assets, el análysis shows that the aviation industryóN Civil Requireá más de 260.000 New pilots during the PRóximo déeach. As you travel toéprostos are progressively resumeówe go toños, The experiment industryá An increase in mandatory retirement ratesón and desertión. In fact, The challenges are expectedícombined drive demand to 27.000 new pilots by the end of 2021.» CAE Canadá.
They have surely let manyñto be able to start fulfilling their usuallyñVolar, so the best time to start studying for pilot, to dependá úonly of you and no one más.
