More Pilots and Mechanics needed - Boeing

The world’s commercial airlines will need 460,000 new pilots and 650,000 new maintenance technicians by 2030, Boeing predicted Wednesday.
“Clearly, the sheer size of this vital pipeline is staggering,” Sherry Carbary, vice president, Boeing Flight Services, said in a news release. “To meet the demand for capable, well-trained people, Boeing and the aviation industry need to move with the speed of technology to provide the tools, training and work environment that tech-savvy pilots and technicians will expect from us.”
The demand amounts to an average of 23,000 new pilots and 32,500 new technicians per year to account for growth and retirements.
The Asia Pacific region alone will need 182,300 pilots, 72,700 of them in China, and 247,400 technicians, 108,300 in China. Here’s projected demand in other regions:

• North America – 82,800 pilots and 134,800 technicians;
• Europe – 92,500 pilots and 129,600 technicians;
• Africa – 14,300 pilots and 19,200 technicians;
• Middle East – 36,600 pilots and 53,000 technicians;
• Latin America – 41,200 pilots and 52,500 technicians;
• Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States – 9,900 pilots and 13,500 technicians.