The Vanishing Aerospace Workforce
by Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno, Lindsay Bjerregaard June 9 2023 Aviation Week
IFA Comment: IFA agrees. It’s difficult to step back and imagine that global aviation would experience a tough recruitment situation. In the middle of the COVID pandemic the greater concern was the recovery of air traffic, the retirement and laying up of large numbers of aircraft. Now it’s clear, there’s going to be an on-going challenge to attract talented people into the aviation and aerospace industries. New initiatives are vital to addressing this growing concern.
Demand has come back, but a lot of workers haven’t. Listen in to hear what that means for commercial aviation, defense and MRO as Aviation Week editors are joined by special guest Todd Tuthill, vice president of aerospace and defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software.