Role of aviation higher education & training in shaping NextGen airport professionals

- In the next 20 years, airlines will have to add 25,000 new aircraft to the current 17,000-strong commercial fleet
- By 2026, we will need 480,000 new technicians to maintain these aircraft and over 350,000 pilots to fly them along with management staff
- Between 2005 and 2015, 73% of the American air traffic controller population is eligible for retirement

Simply stated, the demand for aviation professionals will exceed supply. Factors include:
- wholesale retirements in the current generation of aviation professionals
- aviation professions not attractive enough to potential candidates
- competition with other industry sectors for skilled employees
- training capacity insufficient to meet demand
- learning methodologies not responsive to new evolving learning style
- accessibility to affordable training
- lack of harmonization of competencies in some aviation disciplines, and
- little awareness by the "next generation" of types of aviation professions available.

Tangible result will result into Capacity Building in term of skilled manpower required in airport industry