The turbulent state of the corporate pilot job market
With the U.S.

With the U.S. economy vacillating between recession and recovery for most of the year, no one was terribly surprised when the Department of Labor reported that unemployment figures climbed to nearly 6 percent in October. And as a wavering marketplace goes, so too does the use of business aircraft and hence the need for qualified professionals to staff them.

But with this particular recession, the traditional motivations for using a corporate airplane are a bit different as a direct result of September 11. The atrocities added a new element of security anxiety to corporate travel, not to mention increased hassles for executives flying on the airlines, where schedules have been curtailed 20 percent in the past year. This has all translated–albeit anecdotally–into increased business aviation flying, which would seem to bode well for pilots.