Just when the airline industry bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic, it may face another challenge: a pilot shortage.
Plus, a 22-year-old became the youngest person to visit every country in the world.
Those are some of today’s travel-related headlines I thought you, too, may find interesting.
Pilot Shortage Looming?
A recently released study indicates the aviation industry could be short as many as 50,000 pilots around 2025 — with its effects starting as soon as 2023.
AVWeb’s Russ Niles writes:
The U.S. industry has created the perfect conditions for an acute shortage by using early retirement incentives to get rid of high-price senior pilots. Most of those pilots will not return to the industry and they’ll be joined by a cadre of mid-career professionals who are tired of the cyclical nature of the business and have moved on to other work. The situation is compounded by the fact that the high cost of training and the anecdotal reports of the insecure nature of the job are discouraging young people from getting in. Even banks that had recently started financing pilot training are having second thoughts.
Lexie Limitless: Youngest Person to Visit Every Country on Earth
Lexie Alford aka “Lexie Limitless” traveled to every country on the planet — and she’s only 22.
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On an Instagram post, she writes:
More people have been to outer space than have traveled every country and less than 10% of these global travelers have been women. I’m proud to be a part of this bizarre group of humans who have gotten to scratch the surface of how much there is to explore[.]
Elsewhere…
Airlines warn passengers of data breach after aviation tech supplier is hit by cyberattack
First look inside new supersonic jet that could fly from London to New York in 90 minutes
Covid-19 Insurance Becoming Travel Must-Have
Alaska Senators Introduce New Legislation to Bypass Canada’s Cruise Ship Ban
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