Post by Hera on Oct 11, 2013 9:10:53 GMT -7
(CBS News) Air travel is soaring around the globe and so is demand for pilots. Airlines will have to hire nearly 500,000 commercial pilots in the next 20 years to keep up with aircraft orders and the biggest need is in the Asia-Pacific region. Boeing estimates nearly 200,000 pilots will be hired there.
Tianjin Airlines has 56 foreign pilots and 17 are Americans. One of those is American pilot Dave Hubberts who has been flying for 15 years.
"I was doing Greensboro, and Chicago and Fargo and Lafayette, Louisiana whereas here I get to go to Qingdao, and Wenzhou, and Fuzhou," he said. "Not only places I'd never heard of - but look at Tianjin - Tianjin is a city of 10 million people I'd never heard of before I looked at coming here!"
Tianjin, China actually has 14 million people and it's now home to the 33-year-old Hubberts.
Hubberts said that being a pilot in China never crossed his mind until there were layoffs at the regional carrier he worked for in Chicago.
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Tianjin Airlines has 56 foreign pilots and 17 are Americans. One of those is American pilot Dave Hubberts who has been flying for 15 years.
"I was doing Greensboro, and Chicago and Fargo and Lafayette, Louisiana whereas here I get to go to Qingdao, and Wenzhou, and Fuzhou," he said. "Not only places I'd never heard of - but look at Tianjin - Tianjin is a city of 10 million people I'd never heard of before I looked at coming here!"
Tianjin, China actually has 14 million people and it's now home to the 33-year-old Hubberts.
Hubberts said that being a pilot in China never crossed his mind until there were layoffs at the regional carrier he worked for in Chicago.
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Read the rest of the stroy:
www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57607052/some-u.s-pilots-finding-the-friendly-skies-of-china-more-profitable/