The global aviation industry is said to be growing at a very fast pace according to industry experts, and this is due to the surge in airline operators in the developed and developing economies like Ghana. For instance, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) is expected to employ 84million people globally by 2014.
Besides, statistics by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and WTTC, airline and airports employ 4.3million people globally and aerospace industries employ 730,000 people. Also, while indirect jobs to the airline industry employ 5.8million people, spending by industry employees generates 2.7 million jobs.
The industry’s diversity enables it to provide numerous support services to almost every other industry in the global business landscape today.
General aviation, which is one of the subsets of the industry, generates huge cash flows in health and medicare, agriculture, media, oil and gas, emergency services, environment, transportation and training and development, among others.
In view of the aforementioned, Kilo Alpha Aviation Holdings, an aviation consortium in Accra, has begun career development seminars to nurture a new generation of discerning Ghanaian youth exposed to diversity, wealth, high job enrichment and the numerous indirect businesses and services available to them in the aviation industry.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a two day seminar organized in Tamale, Board Chairman of Kilo Alpha Aviation Holdings, Captain Victor Kwesi Amoah, said with the recent discovery of oil and gas in Ghana , the airline industry is envisioned to receive a major boost and become more and more buoyant within the next few years.
He cited several international and African airlines like Brussels Airlines, Airik Air, Turkish Airlines among others which have set up affiliate offices in Ghana adding that, the consequent implication is that these airlines will be recruiting more and more Ghanaian youth with airline competencies to manage their home offices and become employees of their airlines.
Capt Amoah said sadly, awareness of the aviation industry, its economic viability and enormous newsworthiness is dangerously minimal in many African countries including Ghana saying “African youth are the hardest hit as a result of this underexposure because their career choices remain limited to only a few saturated “known industries” creating the perpetual unemployment crises faced by educated African youth in general and Ghanaian youth in particular”.
The Board Chairman of Kilo Alpha Aviation Holdings therefore, charged the youth of the three Northern Regions including Northern, Upper West and Upper East to take advantage of opportunities offered by the company and read some courses in aviation ahead of a job boom in the aviation industry in Ghana in the next few years.
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