TATV Newsround: The impending shortage of pilots and engineers

Boeing’s global forecast offers both good news and bad for the different regional markets in MEASA. In this week’s Newsround, Alan Peaford looks at the figures and questions how this will correlate with the impending shortage of pilots and engineers.
 

This week’s programme also visits Lebanon where Owen Holdaway reports on a pleasure flight aboard a Lebanese Army helicopter as the struggling military try to raise funds to survive. He outlines the crisis facing the armed forces in the country.

Defence Editor Jon Lake has better news as Kuwait’s first pair of Eurofighter Typhoons take their first flight and he looks at how Turkey could improve its relations with the US and strengthen its fighter fleet at the same time.

Jill Stockbridge also brings news of a new airline in the Congo, new air traffic management in Tanzania, an Indian airline celebrating vaccines and progress on the Bahrain Viper programme.

This TATV programme is brought to you with the support of the World Defense Show.

Alan Peaford

Alan Peaford MBE

Alan is a regular broadcaster and is the consultant editor-in-chief and presenter for Times Aerospace TV and is a regular commentator on aviation issues for many global broadcasting channels. He is conference chairman of the Aviation Africa summit and the Aviation MENA summit and has moderated or chaired conferences for organisations such as IATA, DCAA, the Global Aerospace Summit and business aviation associations in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Jon Lake

Jon Lake

Jon is defence editor for both Arabian and African Aerospace magazines.

Mark Pilling

Mark Pilling

Mark is a consulting editor to Arabian and African Aerospace.

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