CAE, Saudi National Company Of Aviation Sign Agreement

CAE and the Saudi National Company of Aviation (SNCA) announced the expansion of their training relationship with the signature of an exclusive 15-year training centre operations services agreement and the provision of one Airbus A320 CAE 7000XR full-flight simulator (FFS) and one Airbus A320 CAE 600XR flight training device (FTD).

In November 2017, SNCA and CAE had previously announced thecreation of a CAE authorised training centre. The initial agreement includedthe sharing of CAE’s expertise and guidance for the establishment of SNCA’scadet training program including commercial pilot license curriculum andcourseware, the training of staff and instructors, as well as safety andquality control systems. Through this new agreement, CAE will now providetraining centre operations services to SNCA’s new training centre –OxfordSaudia, a CAE Authorised Training Centre – that will be located inDammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SNCA will open the OxfordSaudia flighttraining centre by the end of 2020. CAE will also operate and maintain SNCA’straining equipment at the new facility.

"Since the announcement of the inception of our flightacademy, the response has been overwhelmingly positive," said Captain LarryWade, Chief Executive Officer, OxfordSaudia. “We have witnessed tremendousdemand for pilot training, stemming beyond Saudi nationals and including aneven larger than normal percentage of women than the global average. These are goodsuccess indicators of this partnership as we are bringing world-class pilottraining capabilities to the region. Our option, of two additional A320 CAE7000XR devices, is to enable us to address the growing demand for recurrent andnew type-rating demands in the industry regionally.’’

"SNCA has poured a lot of professionalism and passioninto this new endeavor," said Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, CivilAviation Training Solutions. " We salute SNCA for enrolling 50 femalecadets to its OxfordSaudia flight academy. CAE is strongly committed toincreasing female representation in the commercial pilot profession."

SNCA is acquiring an Airbus A320 CAE 600XR flight trainingdevice (FTD) and an Airbus A320 CAE 7000XR Series full-flight simulator (FFS)equipped with the innovative CAE Tropos 6000XR visual system. The FTD and FFSwill be delivered at SNCA’s OxfordSaudia training facility in the second halfof 2020.