Aviation: Crew

(asked on 3rd July 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many commercial airline pilots joined the Civil Aviation Authority register in each of the past five calendar years.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 13th July 2026

The table below shows the number of pilots that received their first UK commercial pilot licence from the Civil Aviation Authority by year of issue and includes all relevant commercial licence types.

Year of Issue

Initial issues (Commercial Pilots)

2021

625

2022

1374

2023

1771

2024

796

2025

961

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