27 JULY 2015
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Boeing has released a new forecast showing continued strong demand for commercial airline pilots and maintenance technicians as the world's airlines add 38,000 aircraft to the global fleet over the next 20 years.
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Carole Leach, Southend Airport UK
It is great Boeing forecasting numbers of engineering staff required but in the UK the official figures show that fewer than 800 people work in these roles. With almost 12,000 maintenance licenses issued by the UK CAA this is clearly wrong and due to the roles in aircraft maintenance being rolled into manufacturing (wrong SIC and SOC codes don't identify the roles in MRO & Part M let alone the aftermarket sector). The skills needed by the OEM's and MRO/continuing airworthiness technical support are not the same yet until the new Trailblazer apprenticeships are available next year we are still having to adapt manufacturing frameworks and do not have a single qualification available to support Part M activities. All the value of MRO and Part M are attributed to manufacturing so the service side of the sector is undervalued and not supported adequately by BIS. We need an industry partnership for aviation services to enable the sector to promote our benefit to the economy and act as a focus for government support for the jobs we provide across ground and flight ops and continuing airworthiness/MRO in the same way that UK manufacturers have so successfully done for aerospace.