Japan aiming to counter expected pilot shortages around 2030

The Japanese government, airlines and academia are trying to boost the pool of future pilots to cope with expected manpower shortages that could cut flight services.Concern is growing as the large number of pilots now in their late 40s, who were recruited during Japan's asset-inflated bubble economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s and make up a big portion of working pilots, will be retiring around 2030.As highly specialized pilots cannot be trained immediately, the country is trying to secure more personnel by boosting the quota of training schools and setting up a loan scheme for studen…READ FULL ARTICLE