Report shows that Canada needs 7,000 pilots by 2025 as low-cost airlines strain the workforce

A report shows that a Canada is facing a shortage of pilots as discount airlines, demand and training costs surge.

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25 comments

  1. It used to be relatively pricey to become a pilot, now it either costs a small fortune or you join the millitary and only en up joining the workforce in your 40s or 50s

  2. I can fly to, get myself some more of that Marijuana – who the heck needs a plane mon! wweeee Weee

  3. ,,,,,,🏃🏇🚨🚨🚨✈️🚁⛔🏇 vamos al mambo ❤️Reportándome su amigo de siempre,uo

  4. This doesn’t sound familiar, pilot shortage, not much on this before 2022 but we will all pretend it’s been a problem for years, they were forced to leave in 2021, one way or another.

    1. @Glen Williams The Pilot shortage issue have been a problem for years!!! This is not new news…. what happened is that Sunwing found itself short 63 Pilots, that is why it is in the news again.

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