According to a NZ Herald Online article posted on Monday 5 December, a potentially lucrative aviation trade mission focused on aviation training for the commercial and private sectors visited China with high hopes of putting New Zealand in line to train Chinese pilots in New Zealand.
Demand in growth comes from many areas including a growing middle class wanting to fly, a desire for wealthy Chinese to obtain private pilot licenses and commercial work.
NZ Herald Online quoted Aviation New Zealand chief executive John Nicholson as saying,
"So what we are seeing in China is that there are some classic requirements to collaborate between companies to achieve the scale and volume that the Chinese companies are looking for."
Read the full article here.
