Remote communities ‘first ones’ to ‘suffer’ in pilot shortage

By 2025, Canada may face a shortage of 3,000 pilots, which could double if Transport Canada adopts new flight crew fatigue regulations.

CCAA executive director Robert Donald said there has to be a 'concerted response' so larger airlines like Air Canada aren't just 'raiding' smaller airlines, which doesn't address the problem of supply. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/BriYYZ

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 22, 2018

If Canada's current pilot shortage is not addressed, smaller communities across the country will lose their flight routes and remote communities may lose access to essential services. “We will see the collapse of remote and regional services, which alternately the government will have to subsidiz...

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