"Trainee pilots to pay own way at Southern" from South China Morning Post

"China Southern Airlines, Asia's largest airline, plans to fast-check its pilot certification programme by hiring high school and university graduates willing to pay their own 730,000 yuan (HK852,000) tuition fees."


"Mainland carriers , which are set to double their fleet size to 5,000 aircraft by 2015, are struggling to fill the gap between their growing demand for pilots and the projected supply of aviators from existing training programmes."


"China Southern, the only mainland airline with a dedicated flight training school, has attempted to address the problem of pilot shortages. The Guangzhou-based airline company set up a flight training school in Perth, Australia in 1993 and joined forces with Beihang University in Beijing to run the Flying College of Beihang University in the same year."