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Mar 17, 2016 (newstodate): Pilots are increasingly becoming a scarce resource in today's aviation business.
Airlines around the world are recruiting fresh cockpit crews to man their fleets of aircraft as the global regional air traffic is expanding, and airlines tend to move away from fewer operations with larger aircraft between major hubs to higher frequencies through operating smaller aircraft between hubs and secondary airports.
As one rather untapped reservoir of pilot recruitment, female pilots are coming into demand as demonstrated also by the much-hyped all-female cockpit crews manning aircraft on March 8.
But of the world's pilot pool totaling 153,000 commercial pilots holding FAA licenses in 2014, only 6,400 of them were women.
Airlines around the world are recruiting fresh cockpit crews to man their fleets of aircraft as the global regional air traffic is expanding, and airlines tend to move away from fewer operations with larger aircraft between major hubs to higher frequencies through operating smaller aircraft between hubs and secondary airports.
As one rather untapped reservoir of pilot recruitment, female pilots are coming into demand as demonstrated also by the much-hyped all-female cockpit crews manning aircraft on March 8.
But of the world's pilot pool totaling 153,000 commercial pilots holding FAA licenses in 2014, only 6,400 of them were women.