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Phillipe Salazar launches Air Law PhD and Masters

THE University of Cape Town is now inviting applications for admission to the Faculty of Law’s PhD and Master's Programmes with a focus on Air and Aviation Law. These degrees are by research and dissertation only (no course work). This is an exciting new area for the Faculty, and is led by Distinguished Professor Philippe Salazar who recently authored Air Law (2019) – a book focused on the laws of air and aviation in South Africa, the first book of its kind on this particular legal focus, and a publication hailed as of great value to the aviation community. It can be found here x Distinguished Professor Salazar is keen to work with postgraduate research students interested in this area of specialisation. Students are invited to submit topics for their research, provided that they remain within the wider range of aviation or air law regulations, international or local. Cases are looked at individually on the merit of the proposal. The programme has already attracted top aviation executives. This is a unique opportunity for pilots or aviation administrators to gain an advanced degree from Africa's top-ranking institution and from an internationally renowned Law Faculty. Students do NOT need to hold a law degree to enroll for a Masters programme. For a PhD, however, a LLM (Masters in Law) is recommended - but not compulsory.

For more information contact UCT Law’s Postgraduate Manager, Ms Patricia Phillips on patricia.phillips@uct.ac.za or Distinguished Prof Philippe-Joseph Salazar on philippe.salazar@uct.ac.za. 

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Our airline columnist Mike Gough says SAA is currently in too perilous a position for him to pen his usual column for this issue. However he did share the following great insight:

“The good news is that there will be an even worse pilot shortage in about two years’ time. The COVID-19 pandemic will have cut so many pilots from the industry, especially the older ones who will have taken early retirement, that there will be a huge shortage of pilots when the airline industry once again approaches previous levels. And in four years’ time the FAA estimates that 42% of the entire US ATP-licensed workforce will have retired. Couple that with the COVID issues, and it’s going to be an epic train smash.”