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.
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract by Serene Air to provide enhanced tailored aircraft systems courses for the Airbus A330 and Boeing 737NG, as well as CPaT’s interactive diagrams and general subjects catalog. 11 November 2021
Alaska Airlines and its regional carrier Horizon Air have entered into an agreement with University of Maryland Eastern Shore for True North, an initiative offering financial aid to students who aspire to be pilots. 11 November 2021
Women in Aviation International has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to strengthen the organization’s initiatives of encouraging youth to pursue STEM futures. 10 November 2021
Epic Flight Academy released the winners of the 6th Annual Aviation Scholarship Awards during its annual scholarship event in November. 10 November 2021
Alsim is strengthening its presence in Germany as Air Munich Aviation, located in Jesenwang airport, nearby Munich, has recently bought an Alsim AL250 simulator. 10 November 2021
The Thrust Flight Group, a professional flight academy based at Addison Airport, Texas, has purchased seven new Piper Archers for its flight training fleet. 9 November 2021
Garmin International has launched a new eLearning course, providing comprehensive, up-to-date instruction on the Garmin G3000, and a free video series, offering lessons in risk management and SiriusXM weather products. 8 November 2021
Lufthansa Aviation Training is bundling its training portfolio for cockpit and cabin crews at its second-largest location in Berlin-Schönefeld, Germany. 8 November 2021
Egnatia Aviation has selected Private-Radar for their flight school management system and aircraft tracking system to support their airline pilot training academy. 5 November 2021
Coinciding with FEINDEF, Simloc previously announced its integration into the new Audere Global; now Fujitsu and Audere Global are collaborating for the development of innovative technologies in the defense sector. 5 November 2021
Recurrent Training Center in Tampa, Florida, has launched its new King Air 350 Training Program, featuring an initial Pilot in Command (PIC) type rating course and recurrent courses. 5 November 2021
Caverton has just been qualified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency as an official full flight simulator operator, using the Thales Level D, Reality H full-flight simulator product for the AW139 helicopter. 4 November 2021
Spatial is completing its 100th training device, an Airbus A320 door trainer, which is to be installed at a facility in the United States next week. 4 November 2021
It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces, and new ones, as we made our long-awaited return to a live European Aviation Training Symposium (EATS) in Berlin after the pandemic-enforced delay. 4 November 2021
CAA International and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University signed a Memorandum of Understanding focused initially on the development and delivery of aviation security and cyber security training in South America. 4 November 2021
Aerospace Center For Excellence recently installed 20 Redbird Flight Simulations desktop training devices in the Ramus Skylab Innovation Center. 4 November 2021
VRpilot signed a contract with Sunclass Airlines during the 2021 European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) for the delivery of VRflow, which is to enable Sunclass to qualify the pilots for the high safety standard. 3 November 2021
BAA Training is adding an additional full flight simulator produced by L3Harris – Airbus A320 CEO/NEO – to the mix of equipment in its training centre BAA Training Spain to provide more capacity to train new and existing pilots. 3 November 2021