Ep 201 - The Rising Costs of Aviation

About this episode

This episode discusses the rising costs of operating in Australian aviation and its impact on students, private pilots, and training operators.

Would you like to know more? Flick me a message! The cost of operating in Australian aviation — whether you’re a student working toward your CPL, a private pilot trying to keep current, or an operator running a training fleet — has risen sharply over the past few years. It’s not one thing. It’s everything, all at once. And for a sector that was already running on tight margins before COVID, the compounding effect of these increases is genuinely threatening the accessibility and viability of g...

People in this episode

Host: Trent Robinson

Topics covered

• aviation costs
• CPL training
• pilot accessibility
• COVID impact
• training fleet operations

Keywords

• aviation
• costs
• CPL
• private pilot
• training fleet
• COVID
• accessibility

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Australian aviation

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