Labour Shortage in the Aviation Industry
9:00am - 9:45am: Brendan Sobie, Independent Aviation Analyst
9:00am - 9:30am: Czerny Achim, Associate Professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
9:15am - 9:30am: Vivien Lau, President of the Hong Kong Airline Service Providers Association
9:30am - 9:45am: George Cautherley, the Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce
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On Monday s Backchat, we ll be talking about the labour shortage in the aviation industry.
It s estimated that Hong Kong International Airport is currently short of about 25,000 staff around a third of the number employed there before the pandemic.
Industry figures say the shortage is having a serious effect on airline operations, and are calling for measures to make it easier to bring in foreign labour.
But with many sectors of the economy fac
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