Training and Workforce
AOPA's Baker, NBAA's Bolen See Progress on Drawing New Students
License issuances are up, AOPA's high school program is growing, and more youths are interested in the emerging aviation technologies, Bolen and Baker say.

The aviation community is beginning to see the fruits of a major effort across multiple groups to attract new pilots and the industry has become “cool again,” NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association president and CEO Mark Baker agree.

Speaking on a webinar last week, Bolen and Baker underscored the need to press forward on building the workforce. Bolen noted that this was “very much a front-burner issue” before the pandemic and it eased briefly with the airline layoffs.

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