Warren Christie, JetBlue’s vice president of Operational Planning and Training, outlined his air carrier’s training strategy in a far ranging interview with Group Editor Marty Kauchak on February 21, 2014. Insights from their discussion are provided in this article. JetBlue’s ambitious business model includes fleet restructuring, route expansion and other...

Chris Long visits Scandinavian airline Novair and profiles the training expertise of this charter carrier. For many cabin crew, making their way out of a smoke-filled emergency evacuation trainer, with its noise (and in some cases movement) and escaping via the slide, is a construct that already provides a pretty...

Improved training methods, sophisticated hardware and a mindset change of management is helping to evolve cabin evacuation training. Robert W. Moorman investigates. Two aircraft accidents in recent years highlight the life and death importance of cabin evacuation training. One was the much-publicized 2009 ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, a US Airways...

   The Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) returns to a favoured conference venue, Bangkok, this year. From September 17-18, the show will explore aviation flight training and simulation from the Asia Pacific region. All eyes are turned to Asia to understand and calibrate the scale of growth in aviation;...

The 16th World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) flew into the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, Florida, April 16-18. With 1,000 attendees hailing from 49 countries and 94 airlines, WATS demonstrated again that it is the largest gathering of aviation training professionals. The four conference tracks - pilot...

EDM Ltd. has been selected by All Nippon Airways (ANA) to design, manufacture and install new Boeing B777 and B767 door trainers for the airline. EDM was awarded the new business as part of an international tender with delivery expected at the end of February 2014 at ANA's training centre...

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...

Stephen Moynihan, Jetstar’s Manager for Communications in Australia, confirmed this August that his airline will be taking delivery of its first of 14 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in September which will progressively replace its fleet of A330s. The aircraft will operate on Jetstar long haul services to destinations including Thailand,...

In response to two recent changes at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Advanced Aircrew Academy has expanded their OSHA online training modules for pilots, flight attendants, and mechanics. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released a new Rule Making Document: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Standards for Aircraft...

MINT Software Systems has signed a service agreement with SuperJet International. The agreement, effective as of October 1st 2013, concerns the acquisition of the training management software MINT TMS™ that SuperJet International will use for pilot, cabin crew and mechanics training at its training facilities located in Italy and Russia.