Pilots wanted as Asia travel boom creates shortage

6 September 2010, 9:52 am

HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Qantas Airways Ltd and Emirates Airline are awaiting deliveries of about 400 planes to capitalise on Asia's rising prosperity. Finding pilots is the next job. Boeing Co expects the region's carriers to be the biggest buyers of twin-aisle planes as travel grows in China and India, home to a combined 1.1 billion middle-class people. Asia-Pacific airlines will ...... Read More »

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