Survey reveals high levels of stress and job dissatisfaction among airline pilots

Many airline pilots feel stressed and undervalued by management, and – despite record demand for flight crew globally – worried about job security and automation making their role redundant. Those are among the findings of a survey by Goose Recruitment and FlightGlobal, which polled more than 1,300 working pilots worldwide on their attitudes to work. Despite a common public perception that a cockpit career is glamorous, well rewarded and a job for life, the survey reveals that pilots often feel anxious and insecure. Frequent studies maintain that an expanding aviation industry will struggle to find the pilots it needs over the next decade, yet more than half the flight crew in the survey say they have worried about losing their job in the past 2 years. This may be partly due to recent publicity around high-profile airline collapses. <br/>