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China Southern Airlines (CSA), one of the country's three major air carriers, has announced it will recruit 245 trainee pilots next year.
Candidates must be science students aged 23 or under and are required to meet the physical conditions set by the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China and be of good character, said corporate sources.
The trainees will receive two years of theoretical study at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and another two-year course at a flight school in Australia and CSA's subsidiaries.
On graduation, the pilots will be sent to work for CSA, based in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, and its three subsidiaries.
In China, it takes four years and costs 630,000 yuan (75,904 USdollars) to train a pilot, at least eight years and 60 million yuan (7.23 million US dollars) to train a captain of a Boeing 737 or 757, and 10 years and 80 million yuan (about 9.64 million US dollars) to train a Boeing 777 or 747 captain.
(Xinhua News Agency December 5, 2002)
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