CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS has some modest suggestions for improving the civil aviation industry’s path to recovery.
While politicians fiddle, airlines are burning through cash. US$51 billion in Q2. Another $77B expected in the second half of the year. A further $5-6 billion per month through the end of 2021, according to IATA’s current forecast.
Some governments have continued to prop up their nation’s airlines, such as Japan and Australia, but others have become preoccupied with elections and second-surge pandemic restrictions, ignoring pleas from aviation leaders while tens of thousands of talented, experienced airline employees are furloughed or released.
Under the radar, thousands more jobs are being shed throughout the airline supplier community – aircraft manufacturers and component builders, MROs to an extent, catering companies, ground transport, airport retailers, and aviation training organisations.
More than 20 of the Asia Pacific region’s leading experts on airline pilot, cabin crew and maintenance training met online to discuss, among other things, how to best manage the new world of online training in a socially distanced world.
Thousands of dollars in scholarships will be awarded at Women in Aviation International’s 32nd Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, and the time to apply is now.
Training to restarting operations at an airline requires collaboration of pilots, cabin crew, trainers, regulators and others. CAT Europe Editor Chris Long, FRAeS, relates the story of how Emirates is meeting the challenges.
The world reeled at the speed and depth of the onset of Covid-19. As we all know, the aviation industry was one of the hardest-hit sectors, and the reaction to it also needed to be both rapid and profound.
Tim Clark, President of Emirates airline, made it clear that despite the challenges which the pandemic brought, the airline will not compromise on the safety of passengers or crew.
Emirates is in a unique situation as the largest operator of exclusively wide-body fleets, and in theory, could have taken the biggest hit. But, as Captain Martin Mahoney, Emirates SVP Flight Training says, whilst practically all the A380 fleet was initially grounded, the B777 fleet continued to operate.
Women in Aviation International's 6th Annual Girls in Aviation Day was celebrated virtually with the launch of the new Aviation for Girls App, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force.
infoWERK has signed a deal with Stuttgart, Germany-based E-Aviation (Eisele Flugdienst GmbH) for numerous e-learning courses for its Flight and Cabin Crew.
This guest commentary is offered by Christian Popp, Chief Customer Officer of MINT Software Systems. Christian looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our personal and professional relationship with technology.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary in 2020, Spanish ATO One Air launched the Crew Flight Simulator Lab, which houses more than 20 commercial and general aviation simulators. In addition, One Air pilot and cabin crew students have been introduced to the V360E virtual cockpit and cabin from Aviation eLearning.
“Our world may not be the same as it was half a century ago, but aviation will continue to play a key role,” Airbus states as part of a new public relations campaign, #KeepTrustInAirTravel.