DURBAN - Students pilots remain optimistic they will land their dream jobs despite widespread retrenchments at global airlines because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is going to make it difficult for newly-qualified pilots to tap into the industry. Private companies and other airlines would rather employ experienced pilots than those fresh out of flight school.” In 2017, after matriculating from Westville Boys’ High, he enrolled at the flight school and a year later he obtained his private pilot’s licence.
“To work for the bigger airlines like Emirates or South African Airways, I needed a commercial licence with over 2 000 hours of flight experience as well as my Airline Transport Pilot Licence. I am still working towards achieving this.”“There is always a demand for air travel. We might be in a crisis now but in two years things will change. Fortunately for pilots, we can venture into being flight instructors or doing charter flights.
“But we must remember it is not going to be like this forever. We will recover. Once I get my licence, I am going to do charter flights before trying for my Airline Transport Pilot Licence.”
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