17 June 2025 Patrick Johnston Singapore Airlines Group will hire 300 former Jetstar Asia employees—100 pilots and 200 cabin crew—following the low-cost carrier's announcement that it will cease operations on July 31, 2025, creating one of the largest workforce transitions in recent Asia-Pacific aviation history and generating significant demand for simulation training services.
Alaska Airlines have acquired a number of virtual reality headsets with cockpit procedure training software from Danish training solutions developer VRpilot to evaluate the potential of VR technology in flight training. 27 April 2022
While there is active collaboration between industry suppliers and maintenance schoolhouses to expand A/M/V/XR’s reach into curricula, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports there are perceived technology gaps and other challenges. 27 April 2022
American Airlines is finding that a scheme to encourage off-duty pilots to jump in a simulator to help with a Line Operational Evaluation is not going over with the union. 27 April 2022
Avsoft has created a Boeing 777-200 aircraft systems online pilot course, which includes 24 modules covering all the major aircraft systems, including components, operations, controls, and indications associated with each system. 27 April 2022
Airline management and governments worldwide handled the pandemic slowdown rather poorly. How are they doing with the recovery?, asks CAT Editor Rick Adams, FRAeS. 25 April 2022
In its mission to contribute to the growth of the aviation industry and offer advanced aviation courses and certifications, Pan Am Flight Academy has recently added new equipment to its fleet of training devices. 22 April 2022
AAP Aviation is to become the biggest owners of Pilot Flight Academy in Norway after a group of industrial and financial players have now joined forces. 21 April 2022
Maxar Technologies has made a strategic investment in Blackshark.ai, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered geospatial analytics services. 21 April 2022
Chris Long investigates the relationship between Germany-based Volocopter and EASA and assesses the start-up's bold plan of providing an air taxi service at the Paris Games. 21 April 2022
Saturn Flight Simulator has acquired patents of its new and disruptive flight training simulator, which was followed by a letter of intent for six simulator orders. 20 April 2022
Eve UAM, LLC, an Embraer company, and Thales have teamed up to support the development of Eve’s electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft in Brazil. 20 April 2022
Volatus Infrastructure, LLC, in partnership with Wittman Regional Airport and Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation, have established their first permanent eVTOL vertiport. 20 April 2022
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract with CommutAir for the provision of Aircraft Systems courses for the Embraer ERJ145, as well as CPaT’s General Subjects. 20 April 2022