The Australian airline industry has a pilot crisis. Every commercial airline in the country is desperately trying to recruit. It’s hitting the lower paying regional airlines hardest and a growing part of the problem is the quality of pilots now flying commercial airlines.
It’s part of a broader global shortage of both pilots and maintenance engineers. In Australia, it’s being made worse as Australian airlines battle pilot unions over salaries and conditions while a growing list of international operators implement an increasingly aggressive recruitment strategy.
Australia is uniquely vulnerable to poaching by US airlines due to the availability of E3 work visas for pilots under the
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