{"id":425307,"date":"2026-05-10T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilot-shortage-2026-us-aviation-academy-analysis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:00:17","slug":"the-pilot-shortage-in-2026-is-it-still-real-and-what-is-actually-being-done-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=425307","title":{"rendered":"The Pilot Shortage In 2026: Is It Still Real, And What Is Actually Being Done About It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines around the world have increasingly had to come to terms with a shortage of pilots in recent years. Being paid to fly passengers and cargo around the world for a living is a dream job for many people, but it is also one that needs a big investment of time and money. For this reason, alongside a relatively low mandatory<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"135533\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/retirement\/\"  >retirement<\/a><\/span> age, airlines are losing pilots faster than they replace them. So, what can be done about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relatively low mandatory retirement age for pilots means that thousands leave the role every year, and airlines are in a race to replace them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,697,629,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-pilot-shortage","category-pilots","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425308,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425307\/revisions\/425308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}