Why aren't there more young aircraft mechanics? “Now with COVID coming into play, the vast majority of airlines have offered early-out packages for people to leave.” “Without COVID, that timeline might have been extended a year or two because the field was seeing an influx of money and benefits that it hadn’t seen in many, many years,” he said. In an exclusive interview with the Satair Knowledge Hub, Gary Peterson, director of the Transport Workers Union of America’s (TWU) Air Division, said that COVID-19 almost certainly accelerated the mechanic and technician shortage. What was once seen as a future problem is here now, particularly after some 1.3 million airline industry jobs were lost last year and only a five percent industry-wide employment increase was expected in 2021. Boeing and Airbus have said that the MRO industry will need at least 600,000 new technicians over the next two decades, while a 2017 analysis by international consultancy Oliver Wyman predicted that demand for aviation mechanics would outpace capacity already by 2022. For years, there have been concerns about an eventual shortage of mechanics and technicians. From steep drops in passenger numbers to sharp increases in parked and retired aircraft, the crisis delivered one blow after the other.īut not every problem the industry faces is a new one. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a number of historic problems for the aviation industry. Following the industry’s worst year ever, where does the situation stand now? Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the aviation industry was facing a looming labour shortage, particularly among mechanics and technicians.
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