“There’s a very acute shortage in our country today of aviation mechanics,” Pfaff told Fortune. “We have on average about half the number of trained certified mechanics that we need.”
“The opportunities are endless,” Miller previously told Fortune. “At the end of the day, there really is no wrong.”
“I think that in the past few years, we have over-indexed on college as the right career path for most, and careers in the trades haven’t been given the attention they deserve as a viable option,” Cassotis said.
It’s a sentiment echoed far beyond aviation.
“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Farley told the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast. “We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians, and tradesmen. It’s a very serious thing.”
“The skilled craft segment of every economy is going to see a boom. You’re going to have to be doubling and doubling and doubling every single year.”
