Rebuilding pilot workforces: Asia-Pacific airlines work to ensure recruitment pipeline

As Asia-Pacific airlines ramp up their international operations, their focus has increasingly turned to rebuilding their pilot workforces and ensuring that they have a recruitment pipeline for planned growth.

Pilot supply was one of the major long term issues facing the airline industry before COVID-19. The pandemic period stalled growth, and in many cases caused a hiring hiatus.

But now, as Asia-Pacific airlines look to restore their international operations, pilot supply is returning towards the top end of the priority list. Airlines are spooling up their recruitment and training again to account for short term and long term expansion.

With many other factors to consider, they need to ensure that staffing levels do not constrain their network plans. The examples below demonstrate how some Asia-Pacific airlines are addressing this issue.