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Ethiopia: Industry Needs to Tackle Pilot Shortage - Iata
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
30 November 2007
Posted to the web 3 December 2007
Addis Abeba
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Friday warned the world's airlines of a severe pilot shortage unless industry and government work together to change training and qualification practices.
According to IATA's new estimates, the industry may need 17,000 new pilots annually due to expected industry growth and retirements.
"It's time to ring the warning bell. We must re-think pilot training and qualification to further improve safety and increase training capacity," said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA Director General and CEO, in a statement.
He told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) International Safety Forum that industry is concerned that "there are no global standards for training concepts or regulation. Pilot training has not changed in 60 years.
He said the industry was concerned over global safety standards for training concepts and regulation. He also voiced concern over the fact that Pilot training has not changed in 60 years.
"We are still ticking boxes with an emphasis on flight hours," he said The Ethiopian Airlines, an IATA member has lately been suffering from high turn over in its staff, particularly the flight crew, owing to attractive salary and better prospects in other major airlines. In a desperate move to tackle the trend of 'pilot drain,' the airline recently approved a pay rise to its flight crew and other staff, but it is not known what the future holds as regards to retention of the airline's pilots.
As far as aviation safety is concerned, the airline is closely working with IATA's Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).
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Most recently, the Ethiopian Airlines hosted IATA Operation Safety Audit (IOSA) workshop from March 13-17, 2006 in Addis Ababa where 30 representatives from airlines of 6 African countries including regulatory bodies deliberated on how IOSA benefits African Airlines and areas IATA can help them to workout a timetable to prepare for and get ready to be audited. Launched in July 2003, IOSA is an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline.
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