Every year, airlines across Europe require about 5,000 newly trained commercial pilots. These are needed to replace retiring crews and to operate a growing fleet of aircraft. This trend is set to continue over the coming decades as air travel expands further and the fleet grows by a projected 80 per cent in the next 20 years.   In Ireland, we train about 100 commercial pilots annually, primarily at Cork, Waterford and Weston airports. An opportunity exists to quadruple the number of trained cockpit crew, providing much much-needed supply to airlines based in Ireland and internationally. Moreover, such activity can focus…

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