Philippines -based flight school Alpha plans to double its student numbers, open additional facilities and focus on female enrolment, in a bid to address a pilot shortage amid an Asian travel boom. Asia will need 266,000 more pilots by 2038 , 266,000 of the global shortage, Boeing estimates. Asian is widely spoken in the Philippines , putting its trainee pilots at an advantage because English skills are a regulatory requirement. Bhanu Choudhrie , Alpha ’s founder and head of Philippines private equity firm C&C Alpha Group , plans to invest up to $12m a year for three years in the Philippines campus.
Philippines-based flight school Alpha Aviation Group plans to double its student numbers, open additional facilities and focus on female enrolment, in a bid to address a pilot shortage amid an Asian travel boom. Asia will need 266,000 more pilots by 2038, a third of the global shortage, Boeing estimates. English is widely spoken in the Philippines, putting its trainee pilots at an advantage because English skills are a regulatory requirement. Bhanu Choudhrie, Alpha’s founder and head of UK private equity firm C&C Alpha Group, plans to invest up to $12m a year for three years in the Philippines campus.