Saudi Arabian Airlines and Lockheed Martin have signed a memorandum of agreement to jointly pursue potential new business opportunities in the Kingdom. The two companies are already exploring the creation of a new training organization to provide technical training for the aviation and aerospace industry in the military and commercial...
Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) and Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) are to deliver aviation training services for Bahrain Airport Company and its personnel. GAA will be provide a wide range of specialised and accredited training services including International Air Transport Association (IATA) Airport Operations, dangerous goods, first aid, safety management system,...
Airbus and the GEDC (Global Engineering Deans Council), the leading global organisation for engineering education, have opened the call for nominations for the inaugural GECD Airbus Diversity Award. The initiative aims to reward individuals who have been pro-active in bringing more diversity into engineering classrooms around the world. The long...
FlightSafety International has selected National Airways Corporation, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a FlightSafety Maintenance Training Center. Through NAC, FlightSafety will now offer training for Pratt & Whitney Canada engines in South Africa and the surrounding region. FlightSafety will provide NAC with courseware and MATRIX training equipment that includes...
Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) has signed an agreement with the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) to provide EASA CAT B1.1 and EASA CAT B2 training concepts for ACT's basic training program. LTT will run train-the-trainer courses in Kuwait and provide access to web- and computer-based training media. LTT will also support...
Airbus and Thai Airways International have signed a Maintenance Training Collaboration agreement to develop a long term strategic partnership. Thai will become Airbus' local maintenance training centre in the region and will initially provide maintenance type-training capabilities for A320 and A330. Airbus will work with Thai to achieve full EASA...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has launched its apprenticeship scheme for summer 2013. This year, the initial training phase will be carried out at the newly opened Monarch Aircraft Engineering Training Academy (MAETA) at London Luton Airport from where individuals will then relocate to MAEL's London Luton, Birmingham and Manchester...
Thales has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Cyprus and Cyta, the leading provider of integrated electronic communication services in Cyprus, for the modernisation of the country's air traffic management system. In the frame of this contract, Thales will supply the associated simulator. With TopSky - Simulation, the...
A group of air traffic control students from Saudi Arabia are rating in their home country, just four months after completing ab initio training at Airways Training Centre in New Zealand. The students, from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) completed their Airways training in July last year...
ASTech's GEMS Online Exam has been cleared by the National Aviation Authority of Germany (LBA) and is now being used by ASTech's long-term customer Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) at their training sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The system was also introduced to training managers of Part-147 training organisations or airlines,...