![Why diversity in the cockpit will avoid a looming pilot shortage](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BA-Q400NG_Cockpit-HR_1170.jpg)
The pandemic has forced school closures across America, but it’s also disrupting aviation training programs, vital to faciliating more gender diversity.
![TBT: When is a flying career just a job?](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/King_Air_Fusion_Cockpit2.jpg)
With ever changing demands of what it takes to pursue aviation as a career, and pilot shortages affecting Qantas, we look back at one pilot's point of view.
![On demand: Will the gig-economy for professional pilots takeoff?](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Virgin_JohnThomas_EconomyX_750.jpg)
With the global pilot shortage regularly making headlines, having pilots able to urgently provide short-term services makes sense at face value. But the increase in on-demand aircrew service providers and agencies looks set to be tested by aviation regulators.
![TBT: Short skilled, aviation careers in a time of stress](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20170601adf8270845_001-1.jpg)
With the pilot shortage a topical issue in August 2018, today’s Throwback Thursday feature from a previous issue of Australian Aviation goes back in time a decade to revisit our August 2008 analysis of the then looming aviation skills shortage.