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China's Growing Hunger For Air Travel Has Created A Pilot Shortage


An Airbus A380 in the China Southern Airlines fleet

Over the next two decades, China will take delivery of 5,500 new aircraft as its airline industry grows to match the expanding spending power of its ever more affluent population. The problem is, China already has a shortfall of about 10,000 pilots, says Zou Jianjun, a professor at the Civil Aviation Management Institute of China.

China currently has the world's fastest-growing air travel market, with domestic traffic second only to the U.S.', expanding by 14.7 percent from June 2012 to June 2013, according to the International Air Transport Association.