Making Book
Informed by its Pilot and Technician Outlook (PTO)—an arcane work of divination that peers twenty-years into the future of the aerospace industry and portends what profits or perils lie therein—Boeing set forth the global commercial fleet will grow to north of 47,000 aircraft by 2042—nearly double its current size. To support such a multitude of machines, Boeing posits that air carriers will need hire upwards of 2.3-million new personnel, to include 649,000 pilots, 690,000 maintenance technicians, and 938,000 cabin crew members.