Chuck Grieve is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 40-years experience in consumer, corporate, trade and technical journalism on a global scale.
Variously based in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Far East, he has covered stories across a range of industries including aviation, logistics, power generation, oil and gas, and corporate law. He brings to the MRO brief a breadth of technical understanding combined with business and cultural insights. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Internal Communication.
Chuck is MRO editor of both Arabian and African Aerospace magazines and part of the Show Business dailies team.
Storm clouds are forming over MRO manpower issues. Even running at capacity, Middle East training establishments will be stretched to keep up with demand, raising fears of poaching and bidding wars for qualified engineers.
Reports that the passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion market is overheating may be premature, an opinion that MROs are backing up with their actions.
