Rick Adams
Rick Adams, FRAeS, is Chair of the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) pilot conference. An Aviation Journalist for 4 decades, he is Co-Founder of AviationVoices.com, former Editor of Halldale's CAT and MS&T magazines, ICAO Journal, and IFALPA Journal; a writer for several leading aviation and defence magazines; and Communications Director for leading Aerospace companies.
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If Day One was the appetizer of the Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual conference, Day Two was meat and potatoes. 12 November 2020
Day One of the Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual conference reinforced the return to growth theme. 11 November 2020
Global ATS-V is live today, with over 800 attendees, 60 speakers, an interactive exhibition hall, live demos and lots of networking. This new virtual event explores the future of training. It's time to Reset, Restart and Rebuild. Join us! 10 November 2020
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.
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CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, continues his conversation with Kit Darby discussing risk factors such as recession, job cuts, mergers, fuel costs and terrorism on airline pilot hiring. Plus the unique challenges of getting a foreign flying job, corporate flying, and pay/benefit packages by airline and aircraft type. 8 October 2020
Fatigue reports are “an important tool for aviation authorities in overseeing operators' fatigue risk management or safety in general,” according to a new guidance document. 2 October 2020
The Pandemic Recovery Agreement prevents any pilot from being laid-off until June of 2021. However, pilots will work fewer hours and make less money. 30 September 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, talks with Kit Darby, one of the leading experts on professional pilot careers about the state of the North American aviation market - recovery, retirements, furloughs, pay packages, and advice for moving to the head of the queue when hiring restarts (perhaps sooner than you think). The third section of this five-part series is on Aircraft Utilization, Pilot Work Schedules, and Pilot Demand.
Kit addresses the effects of aircraft utilization, pilot workload, and pilots-to-aircraft ratios in determining pilot staffing requirements. 30 September 2020
A4E wants European States to adopt common standards for travel restriction “clarity and predictability.” 26 September 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, talks with Kit Darby, one of the leading experts on professional pilot careers about the state of the North American aviation market – recovery, retirements, furloughs, pay packages, and advice for moving to the head of the queue when hiring restarts (perhaps sooner than you think).
The first section of this five part series is on Airline Recovery Scenarios and the Impact of Pilot Retirements.
Kit Darby outlines possible airline recovery models, pilot retirements at the major US airlines, scenarios for the resumption of pilot hiring, and a comparison of airline early-retirement offers. 17 September 2020
