Astonfly on M6's 19:45 news: “Aviation is taking off”

M6's 19:45 news devoted a report to the growth of air transport and the pilot needs it creates. The channel's teams came to film at Toussus-le-Noble, where Saïd Hadid, CEO of Astonfly, detailed the scale of expected recruitment.

Entitled “Aviation is taking off”, the report starts from a simple observation: humanity is flying more and more. Air traffic is growing steadily and is expected to increase by 1.5% a year in Europe until 2045. The trend is even stronger elsewhere: in twenty years, traffic is expected to grow sixfold in India, fourfold in Indonesia and threefold in China.

600,000 pilots to recruit in twenty years

This growth translates directly into recruitment needs. Interviewed in the report, Saïd Hadid points to the order of magnitude:

“Worldwide, we're talking about 600,000 new pilots to hire within twenty years.”
Saïd Hadid, CEO of Astonfly

For students starting an airline pilot course today, the prospect of a job at the end of training is almost guaranteed. It is one of the report's key points: airline demand remains higher than the number of pilots trained each year.

Training sized for this demand

Every year Astonfly trains new classes of professional pilots at its Toussus-le-Noble base, with courses built around airline expectations. This media coverage confirms what the school has observed for several years: the profession remains promising, and training quality is the decisive factor in employability.