The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has been promoting various efforts to broaden the base of students aiming to become pilots in collaboration with industry, academia and government in order to train and secure pilots to meet future aviation demand.As part of this, we will establish an interest-free loan-type scholarship "Future Pilot" for students who wish to become pilots in the future but have difficulty in attending school due to high training costs, and will start in 2018. became.
Currently, with the rise of LCCs (Low Cost Carriers), the increase in air passengers, and the miniaturization of aircraft, it is extremely important to train and secure future pilots on a global scale.At Civil Aviation College in Japan, it has been decided to increase the number of students enrolled in 2018 by 1.5 times to 108, and there is an urgent need to train pilots nationwide.
Under these circumstances, private training institutions such as private universities have a lot of room to expand their pilot training capacity, and it is expected that they will further increase their role as pilot supply sources in the future. The high tuition fees, including those, are a major issue.
Based on this situation, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has six institutions (Sakuramibayashi University, Tokai University, Sojo University, etc.) that train pilots with the cooperation of ANA Holdings Co., Ltd. and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. Established a scholarship "Future Pilot" to lend a part of the training fee to students of the pilot training course of Chiba Institute of Science, Japan Airlines University, Shin Nihon Airlines Co., Ltd., and will start from 2. It was to be.
The number of loaned students is about 1 per grade (about 25 to 1 per private training institution).The loan amount is 3 million yen per person divided into 5 to 1 times, and the repayment period is 500 years after graduation.The operating costs, which are the guarantee fees, are being covered by the cooperation of private training institutions and airlines.The scholarship will be managed by the newly established Aircraft Operator Ikueikai.
