Bizav Leaders Seeing Shortages in Qualified Pilot Pool
Pilots are leaving corporate aviation to return to the airlines.
The pilot shortage is beginning to affect the business aviation segment. There are now fewer qualified candidates and companies must pay those that are qualified more to keep them from jumping over to the airlines. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter/AIN)
The pilot shortage is beginning to affect the business aviation segment. There are now fewer qualified candidates and companies must pay those that are qualified more to keep them from jumping over to the airlines. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter/AIN)

As airlines become more aggressive in hiring experienced pilots, the available pool of qualified pilots has tightened considerably for business aviation operators, industry leaders agreed. “Looking out into the marketplace, it is really, really challenging for us,” Don Haloburdo, vice president and general manager for Jet Aviation, told attendees at Aeropodium’s U.S. Corporate Aviation Summit on November 17 in Washington, D.C.