Industry Takes Steps To Ease Pilot Shortage Pinch
Boeing's research highlights the shortage is particularly acute for the helicopter industry as airlines up the ante to draw experienced pilots.

As the long-feared pilot shortage begins to rise like the crest of a tidal wave, the major airlines are plucking pilots out of other industries, including cargo and helicopter operations, to fill vacancies. Offering signing bonuses, higher salaries, generous per diem and profit-sharing plans, and other benefit packages, airlines are desperate to fill pilot seats vacated by retirees and on new routes added to meet expanding passenger demand.