Chinese Aviation Industry
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broadsword
Brigadier
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Yeah the ARJ21 has been operational for over 7 years now, seems they are still not capable of ramping up production as they intended. Guess they still need more time to be able to mature their production efficiency(they can be forgivensince its their first time producing and running a civilian airliner). So far deliveries are still to slow to be honest. Let's see if it will be the same story with C919. HOPEFULLY, they can meet their ambitious delivery targets they set for the C919. Else it will be unfortunate
Yeah, I thought that was obvious? Assembling stuffs is a good thing for a country but nothing groundbreaking obviously. What is important as you said is the involvement of local companies being suppliers of major parts and components of a said products, that's where the real value addition and money is made and it helps upgrades the country's industrial base.
The bottleneck may be the number of pilots in the airline, not the production speed of COMAC. It is said that the current production rate is basically 10 days/plane, the fastest can be 7 days/plane, determined by the order status.
You mean COMAC can't train enough pilots for the number of planes they are able to produce?
COMAC is the airplane producer, not an airline. They don't produce pilots
lcloo
Captain
This is a piece of 2019 old news from Simpleflying.com but applicable to current situation and beyond 2030.
Shortage of airlines pilots is due to fast expansion of huge China airlines market. China is hiring foreign pilots because it is impossible to produe 124,000 new airlines pilots in next 15 years.
Globally, the Asia-Pacific region will drive most commercial demand (38% or 244,000), followed by North America (20.5% or 131,000) and then Europe (18.4% or 118,000).
Within the APAC region, China is set to account for more than half of local appetite, demanding up to 124,000 new commercial pilots by 2038.
Impressively, the PRC could need more pilots than all of Europe or North America or the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Russia/ Central Asia combined.
Shortage of airlines pilots is due to fast expansion of huge China airlines market. China is hiring foreign pilots because it is impossible to produe 124,000 new airlines pilots in next 15 years.
Pilot forecasts in numbers
According to Boeing's Pilot & Technician Outlook for 2019 to 2038, over 800,000 civil aviation pilots will be required over the 20-year period. Of the estimated 804,000 pilots, the vast majority, 645,000, could be needed in the commercial sector.Globally, the Asia-Pacific region will drive most commercial demand (38% or 244,000), followed by North America (20.5% or 131,000) and then Europe (18.4% or 118,000).
Within the APAC region, China is set to account for more than half of local appetite, demanding up to 124,000 new commercial pilots by 2038.
Impressively, the PRC could need more pilots than all of Europe or North America or the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Russia/ Central Asia combined.
