Air travel in Asia-Pacific is poised for significant growth in the next decade with new markets and route openings. These will provide exciting opportunities for aviation in the region and globally.
In this episode of #Aviationinsights, Dr. Hassan Shahidi, President and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation and Mr Stephen P. Creamer, President & CEO, Single Sky Solutions Group, and Former Director, Air Navigation Bureau of International Civil Aviation Organization share their insights on what the industry can look forward to and how aviation can grow safely together.
The Asia Pacific region is going to have blue skies with the resumption of air travel demand back to pre pandemic levels. And over the next decade, we will see significant growth in the region. New markets will open up, new travel routes or will open up. It will provide a fantastic opportunity for growth for the region. But also from the global perspective, as we move forward, the concern that we'll have is financial shocks, civil unrest. Potential conflicts between states. All of those circumstances impact Civil Aviation. One has to do with workforce and the ability of the region to make sure that the workforce is trained. It's certified to make sure that they are capable to meet the new demand. Beyond the financial challenges, growth will resume. Growth will put further pressure on us because of the challenges backfilling human resources. It's going to require a concerted effort to ensure that people who follow have acquired the necessary experiences to be able to apply the management and leadership to the industry. And that's going to mean we have to do a better job of planning human resources training and the succession planning to move people through the system. Has to do with making sure that as the growth is occurring, that growth is happening in a safe manner. Safety management systems and processes need to be in place and reinforce both by the industry as well as regulators. By it's very nature, international aviation crosses state boundaries, so there's an enormous amount of communications and collaboration that has to go on between the various stakeholders in the industry. As we make the changes that make that efficiency, we will introduce risk to the system and so then we have to share information about what those risks are and what we've done to take care of the risk so the system stays as safe as we enjoy today. The third challenge has to do with attracting the young people to the industry. There needs to be a strategy from a national perspective as well as a regional perspective to make sure that this industry, aviation industry, is attractive. To young people and early career individuals today, everybody thinks aviation is normal A young person growing up looking at the various opportunities that are available to them might look at us and say that's not as attractive as web development, gaming development or some other industry and so we're going to have to compete for the talent One of the interesting areas of growth in aviation is the area of Urban Air mobility, advanced air mobility, and this is an area where. There is new technology, there are new concepts, and this is a great area for young people to get involved in. And so I think this is one of those sectors, segments of aviation that is going to be attractive to young people. And I think everybody needs to do their part to make sure that we provide the opportunities for young people to get involved.
