Moving on its declared strategy of expanding its portfolio to include ancillary airline services, ANA has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pan Am Holdings in a cash purchase. The deal is expected to be finalized by the year end subject to usual regulatory approvals. Mr. Shinichiro Ito, president &...
European Pilot Selection and Training, a founding member of the International Association of Flight Training Professionals (IAFTP), is to offer its flight training organization customers a 20% discount of EPST Selection Services (pilot handling skills testing and/or pilot attitude testing) for all current and future students if they become an...
ESMA Aviation Academy is now a subsidiary of the Hainan Group (HNA) of China, through its subsidiary HNA Europe. HNA says the takeover will allow ESMA to pursue its marketing strategy focused on the domestic market and the North African market (Maghre) and will make ESMA partially in charge the...
Multi Pilot Simulations B.V. (MPS) has signed an agreement with China Electronics Technology Avionics Co. (CETCA), intending to establish a joint venture in China for the manufacturing of professional flight simulators and related training devices. In line with the strategic development objectives of both CETCA and MPS as well as...
Finnair Flight Academy (FFA) has launched a new "ReverseGreen™ Go!" product in its growing ReverseGreen™ economic operations product family. ReverseGreen Go! is a unique three-step consultancy service that converts the training costs into a profitable investment. After just four months from the start of the project FFA is able to...
More customers and attendees than ever visited the third MINT User Conference that took place in Hamburg, Germany from September 9-15. For the second time the MINT User Conference took place in northern Germany. As a great opportunity to meet fellow MINT users from many different aviation sectors, this year's...
Kishor Mistry, CEO of Peak Pacific Group, has received the E-Learning Leadership Award at the Asian Learning Leadership Awards 2013 in Dubai. The awards ceremony was attended by luminaries from academic, corporate and learning backgrounds from across Asia. The Award brings into focus the steady growth and progress of Mr...
Cardiff Aviation has strengthened its leadership with the appointment of Andrew Braley, as Commercial Director. Braley joins from A J Walter Aviation (AJW), where he was Director of Business Development. He has more than 30 years' global experience in aviation management and business development with organisations including AJW, Reed Elsevier,...
AirAsia has appointed Amit Singh as the Director of Flight Operations and Ganpathy Sampath as the Head of Engineering, for AirAsia India. Amit Singh has 20 years of experience in the airline industry, with the last seven years dedicated to developing and managing budget airlines. Ganpathy Sampath has over 30...
SimCom has completed the first initial training course for the new Total Eclipse using its recently qualified state-of-the-art Level D full flight simulator equipped with IFMS avionics. The course is comprised of six days of ground school, fourteen hours of brief/debrief time, and eighteen hours of simulator training. All systems...