Netherlands: KLM-Air France is having a hard time recruiting airline pilots

In these times of workforce shortage and economic overheating in the Netherlands, KLM-Air France is having a hard time finding airline pilots. According to the air company, fewer and fewer young Dutch people are ready to pay the 117,000 euros which the training to become an airline pilot costs. (Ref. 070459)
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This job, which represents more and more constraints – implying staff management onboard and crisis situations – is not so much of a dream anymore. KLM-Air France’s human resources management in Amsterdam plans to hire a thousand pilots during the next nine years (which will be added to a current workforce of 2,500). Fast growing, the group is actively looking for new recruits, whereas ten years ago, situations wanted for airline pilots largely exceeded its recruiting capacities. KLM’s reputat

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