Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has won a $620,000 New York State Airport Infrastructure grant, part of $10 million awarded for airport capital project improvements across New York State from the Governor’s Aviation Capital Grant Program. The grant will fund construction of a Flight Academy Building at the airport that will...

FlightSafety International’s third Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS) built for Wisesoft Corporation has received Level D qualification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). FlightSafety is building a fourth Airbus A320 for Wisesoft that will be delivered at the end of 2016. The simulator is installed at the...

Earlier this month CTC Aviation announced the re-opening of applications to the CTC WINGS Multi-crew Pilot Licence (MOL) in partnership with easyJet. Since its launch in 2013, the programme has provided aspiring pilots the opportunity to join a full-time career programme, leading directly to a job as an easyJet co-pilot...

Simulation Training Company and SIMCOM Aviation Training have announced a collaboration to open a general and business aviation training center near Paris, France. The training center will be branded SIMCOM Aviation Training Europe (SATE) and will focus on the light and medium business jet as well as owner flown market.

Dr Khalid A.N. Al Ohaly, president of the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) and French Arabian Business School based in Bahrain and Didier Penabayre, managing director of AirBusiness Academy, an Airbus Group company, have signed an MoU to develop and deploy a new MBA track specialised in Aviation Management to be...

CAE has announced ab-initio pilot training and resourcing agreements with commercial airlines including IndiGo, CityJet and China's Schenzhen Airlines. IndiGo has signed a new ab-initio pilot training contract with CAE for the creation of over 200 additional professional pilots through 2018. As part of the airline's training footprint expansion, one...

BA CityFlyer has launched a pilot recruitment drive for direct entry Captains and First Officers, in partnership with airline training and resourcing organisation CTC Aviation. The airline, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways, recently added 20 aircraft to its fleet and added more flights to its schedule. Applications are...

Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) and Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) have re-entered their Embraer E-Jet 190 full flight simulator into service at its Vienna training base, along with Austrian Airlines. The simulator was dismantled in its previous Munich location, transported to Vienna and reassembled in just six weeks. SAT and LFT joined forces to...

KLM UK Engineering has signed a long-term partnership with Nilai University (Malaysia) for the provision of EASA Part 147 exams supported by KLM UK Engineering's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) software. Under the agreement, KLM UK Engineering will support Nilai University's Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering and Advanced Diploma in Aircraft...

Pan Am International Flight Academy and parent company ANA Holdings have anounced a special discounted summer training program for ATP-CTP and Type Rating Traning on the B737NG and A320 at their Miami and Las Vegas Training Centers. Under this agreement students who participate in training between June 1 and August...