In Europe and America, there were many people who could fly airplanes. Generally, a typical middle-class family could afford to attend pilot school and learn how to fly airplanes.
Even if someone didn't have money but had good potential, they could go take a loan and go to pilot school on a loan as long as they wanted to learn.
As long as they graduated, earning money in the future would not be a problem.
Of course, the proportion of wealthy people who can fly planes was even greater and many had their own pilot licenses.
However, most people flew small private jets which were fundamentally different from such large passenger jets.
The female flight attendant came to first class to ask if there were any passengers who could pilot the airplane, because this was a normal operation and response.
Because most of the first-class passengers were rich people, the proportion of people who could fly planes was also higher.
