I’m gonna be blunt… We need more pilots. AKA sim training…
CAE’s own 2025 Aviation Talent Forecast dropped a MAJOR bombshell:
The industry needs 300,000 new pilots by 2034, plus 416,000 maintenance techs and 678,000 cabin crew.
We are about to hit a decade-long tsunami of demand, peaking with a 24,000-pilot shortfall in 2026.
As someone who’s spent years knee-deep in aviation ops… from simulator bays in DFW (yes seriously- at CAE on the weekends with my Dad… I’ve ‘flown’ so many sims) to monitoring pilot hiring pipelines at major carriers – I can tell you this with certainty…. CAE Inc. CAE 0.00%↑ is prepping up BIG time for what 2026 demands.
With a $6.7 billion Civil Aviation backlog and a lean workforce primed for scale, CAE is the force behind the scenes that turns pilots into profit.
But is the stock – trading at $28.59 today – a buy before the rush?
I want to look at this with you workforce-first, because that’s where the real insider edge lies.