Cabin Crew | Halldale Group

Cathay Pacific Chooses EDM

September 21, 2015

Cathay Pacific has awarded EDM a major contract to provide a broad range of cabin crew training simulators. The simulators will be specifically designed and manufactured by EDM to enable the cabin crew of the Hong Kong based airline to maintain and enhance the training of their highly proficient crew...

Crew Training Management

September 20, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

MINT Software Systems has signed a service agreement with the passenger airline WOW air from Iceland, who have selected MINT TRMS as the solution for training scheduling, electronic grading and records management for their cockpit and cabin crew training department. WOW air will use MINT TRMS for flight deck crew...

New Crew Training Centre

September 20, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

easyJet has officially opened the airline's new training facility 'The easyJet Gatwick Academy'. The new Academy, a £2.7 million investment by easyJet, has been built to accommodate easyJet's continued growth and houses a training facility comprising classrooms, cabin simulator, evacuation slide and fire training rig. The Academy is located within...

US Contract Awards for Spatial

September 20, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

Spirit Airlines has established a partnership as a business vendor of training equipment with Spatial Composite Systems, the UAE manufacturer of cabin crew training simulators. Spirit recently awarded a contract to Spatial for its first A321 L1, L3 and OWE door trainer, which has already been installed at Spirit's training...

Site Acceptance Test

September 20, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

EDM's A350 and B767 door trainers it supplied to Ethiopian Airlines have passed their Site Acceptance Test (SAT). EDM manufactured two door trainers for Ethiopian Airlines as part of a major contract to supply a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art cabin crew training equipment. Installed at the airline's brand new training...

RST Door Trainer for Airbus

September 20, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

Airbus has awarded RST Rostock System-Technik a contract to design, manufacture and install an A320 door trainer. The trainer combines a 1L main entry door and a left hand side overwing emergency exit. The training device will be installed in the new Airbus Training Center in Mexico and will be...

WATS 2015 – “Targeted Training Interventions & Aviation Safety”

July 22, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

The 18th annual World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) took place at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, April 21-23. Conference Chair Chris Lehman captures some of the highlights of what is always a very intense three days. With over 1,100 attendees hailing from 50-plus countries and 110 airlines, WATS broke new delegate and airline attendance records once again. Already the world’s largest gathering of aviation...

“We’re Here to Stay”

July 22, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

At WATS 2014 a new company, TRU Simulation +Training, was introduced to the community. About one year later, Jim Takats, TRU’s chief executive officer, recapped the quick pace of activities which have established his company as an emerging global provider of training and simulation products and services, throughout the entire learning continuum. Group...

ICAO Global Training Conference

July 22, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently grouped all the training elements in the organisation together, and held the inaugural ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. Chris Long reports. It is always challenging to pick a suitable venue for a global conference, but Dublin can give claim...

$20m Spent on Cabin Crew Training

April 22, 2015

CAT Industry Reporter

CABIN CREW TRAINING Dubai airline Emirates invested about Dh73 million ($19.86 million) in cabin crew training during 2014, which saw a total of 4,280 new cabin crew graduating from Emirates Aviation College (EAC) - Crew Training. The facility has reported a record-breaking year for 2014, with over 33,000 attendees in...