With air travel demand rebounding as countries reopen to international visitors, aviation university courses in the UAE are recording an increase in the number of applicants amid a global labour shortage in the sector.
Emirates Aviation University (EAU), part of Dubai’s Emirates Group, received 2,981 applications for its undergraduate programme for the 2022-2023 academic year, exceeding pre-pandemic levels of 1,638 in 2019-2020, vice chancellor Ahmad Al Ali said in a media round-table on…