On 20 September 2017, Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics (PIA) will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the expansion of its Youngstown campus. PIA invested US$1.3M in its purchase of the site at Hangar 3 in 2016, with plans for the project developed by Michigan-based Sidock Group, Inc., which is...

The Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM) and Fulcrum Labs have won this year’s Brandon Hall Group Silver award for excellence in the category ‘Best Results of a Learning Program’. The award was presented to AIM and Fulcrum Labs for their Professional Aviation Maintenance learning program, which was designed to...

  151 new young people have just started either traditional or dual-study training programs with the Lufthansa Technik Group, meaning the company is now home to 569 young people on their way to professions in technical aircraft services or aircraft logistics. Of the 151, 76 of the new trainees are...

Global management consultancy Oliver Wyman has acquired UK-based AVISA Aviation Safety Systems, signalling the expansion of its technical consulting and services division, CAVOK, into Europe. AVISA Aviation Safety Systems is a leading technical consultancy that also provides airworthiness management support and training for major international airlines as well as...

easyJet has extended its Amy Johnson initiative by setting itself the target of filling half of the 14 places in its 2017 Aeronautical Engineering Apprenticeship intake with women. The apprenticeship programme is in partnership with Resource Group and its Aviation Maintenance Training Division, with successful candidates due to commence...

The DiSTI Corporation and Peak Pacific have announced a strategic partnership to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) virtual 3D training solutions for the commercial airline industry. Kishor Mistry, Peak Pacific Group’s CEO, stated, “Peak Pacific has developed a leading-edge SaaS platform for Competency/Evidence-Based Training (C/EBT) that we call...

AirAsia and CAE have concluded a sale and purchase agreement concerning the Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence (AACE), which is currently a 50:50 joint venture between the two companies. The US$100 million transaction (including earn-out) will give CAE full control over AACE's three training centres – located in Sepang,...

Fiumicino, Italy-based Blue Panorama Airlines has entered into a long-term training service agreement with Flyco Group. As part of the agreement, Blue Panorama’s training department will gain full access to Flyco’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) including a bespoke courseware library fully customised to the carrier’s requirements. The library...

UK-based line maintenance and training provider Storm Aviation has recently introduced a new course for the A320 NEO (LEAP-1A) Part-147 Differences (covering both practical and theoretical elements) to its portfolio. On successful completion of the course, students will be issued UK Part-147 certification from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Hong Kong Airlines has chosen Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet its flight crew and cabin crew training management and reporting requirements. The carrier will use Pelesys' Qualification Management System (QMS) to monitor, aggregate, and maintain flight and cabin crew qualifications. The QMS module is a...