Bilboone wrote:There is is a huge shortage of aircraft engineers and mechanics....
The airline career is not longer an interesting one....?
People who work their way up through the ranks are put aside by people coming from outside the business, usually people from 'finance'. People in HRM earn more than airline specialists.
A lot of the work is outsourced.
You would be totally out of your mind to start a career in airline...
Salaries are constantly cut down, working conditions getting worse by the day.
People leaving the 'real' airline business, find it more comfortable to work in an other business.
The airline industry in general is speeding towards labour problems, not only in Europe.
On the other hand there is that famous 'predation' by Middle Eastern airlines and air forces. Where they were recruiting in earlier days, retired experienced staff as consultants, trainers, nowadays what they want is active staff. The offer is short term, albeit sometimes with lucrative contracts, but the airlines keep the predation jobs disposable, meaning there is little outlook for career for 'allochtones'.
The industry is harvesting what it was sowing and strewing.