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Senate Commerce Eyes Aviation Workforce Initiatives
Senate Commerce Committee Eyes means to boost the aviation workforce as it crafts an FAA reauthorization bill.
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The Senate Commerce Committee yesterday focused on the workforce challenges confronting the aviation industry as it contemplates the development of a comprehensive FAA reauthorization bill.

“Now more than ever, we cannot afford to leave good talent on the table,” said Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell (D-Washington). She noted that over the next 20 years, the commercial aviation industry will need 128,000 pilots, 134,000 maintenance technicians, and 173,000 cabin crewmembers in North America alone, and looking at just this year, aviation manufacturers hope to hire 10,000 workers to ramp up production.

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