Bolverk XR’s VR suite chosen for Thomas Cook Airlines

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Since August 2017, Thomas Cook AirlinesScandinavia (Thomas Cook) has launched its virtualacademy using Bolverk XR foran optimal cabin crew safety training program.

Thomas Cook was facing the challenge oftraining thousands of theircabin crew onseven different bases all over Scandinavia – and most of those bases didn’t have any training centres. Theairlines wanted to have the quality training that a training centre deliversand wanted the flexibility to do trainings within any of their bases.

Thomas Cook achieved its goal to train allcrew members in door safetywithin Bolverk XR’s virtualreality (VR) A321 program. The focus on correcthandling of the doors has eliminated inadvertent slide deployments since theinitiation of the VR training. The crew also learned to combat fire using VR, savinga massive amount of time and cost for their operations.

Head of TrainingDevelopment Nicolai Bondo Rasmussen said: “The first group ofnewly hired flight attendants had never operated an aircraft door before. Whenwe took them to the physical aircraft following the VR training, they did allthe procedures correctly and were confident on all the modes the door canoperate in. The realism in the VR was so good, thatsome of the cabin crew students were afraid of falling into the water becausethey did really believe they were standing upright by real water whilereleasing the slide-raft from the aircraft door.”

Thomas Cook sees a future where the need to visit aircraft or simulators to train is kept toa minimum, if needed at all. Virtual Reality is agood substitute for traditional training. Using VR, companiescan train as much as they want, where and whenthey want, achievinga better outcome with a cutting-edge educational method.

With a background in the airlineindustry and extensive experience in the VR industry, Bolverk XR excels increating immersive real-time simulations. For more information onBolverk XR’s training offerings, please click here.