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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.
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Avenger Flight Group has launched Poland’s first commercial aviation training center in a joint venture with Enter Air. 23 September 2020
MPS has been awarded a contract by Leading Edge Aviation for the supply of an A320 FTD. 23 September 2020
This guest commentary is offered by Christian Popp, Chief Customer Officer of MINT Software Systems. Christian looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our personal and professional relationship with technology. 23 September 2020
Flight school Learn to Fly Melbourne is the first in Australia to use Copenhagen-based Aviation eLearning’s Virtual 360E Editor (V360E) cockpit training technology. 22 September 2020
CAE has launched Airside, a new digital platform and online community for pilots. Airside provides career and training tools to support pilots during the Covid-19 pandemic, and throughout their professional career. 22 September 2020
Epic Flight Academy has taken delivery of a Frasca 172 Advanced Aviation Training Device with Frasca's Motion Cueing System for fixed wing devices. 21 September 2020
Thirteen outstanding high-school graduates will receive scholarships from The Boeing Company annually for two years to pursue degrees at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. 21 September 2020
Three outstanding students pursuing aviation studies have been awarded Terry Hibler Memorial Scholarships of $4,000 each by the Regional Airline Association Scholarship Foundation. 18 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
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams spoke with the ECA’s Capt. Otjan de Bruijn about the uncertain prospects for pilots of European carriers.
Pilots flying for airlines based in European Union countries are perhaps more at risk than their American counterparts for two critical reasons: so-called “self-employment” contracts at low-cost carriers and a smaller pool of senior pilots expected to retire.
Of the 65,000 pilots in the EU (40,000 of them represented by the European Cockpit Association), about 12,000 were hired under what ECA refers to as “atypical” contracts, i.e. self-employed freelancers rather than airline employees in schemes used by such airlines as Norwegian and Ryanair. Capt. Otjan de Bruijn, Vice President of the volunteer-run association and a B777 pilot for KLM, told CAT they conservatively estimate half of such pilots lost their jobs early in the Covid crisis.
In addition, ECA estimates another 9,000 traditional pilot jobs are at risk, or 15,000 total.
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A commentary by Naveed Kapadia on the economic hardships triggered by the pandemic and the need for a consistent, coordinated approach by governments and other stakeholders.
There have been wide reports of mass airline redundancies in recent weeks as the entire aviation industry goes through a severely turbulent time. These difficult times are the lag indicators of wider challenges upstream.
Airlines in Europe were beginning to show some signs of recovery, however fragile, when the virus numbers started to rise again. The steady traffic increase clearly stopped since 7 August and traffic is at ‐51.5% (7‐day rolling average) compared to 2019.
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CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, highlights the stories that caught his eye in a new Halldale feature titled Rick’s Picks. 16 September 2020
Entrol is launching their first U.S. sales office in Miami, Florida, to support their growth in the American market. 16 September 2020
Missed the maintenance sessions of our APATS 2020 virtual conference? Don't worry, you can catch up with all the final day discussion here. 15 September 2020
Do you know at which ages pilot attrition is highest? Human factors consultant Lex Rock Heemstra studied the issue. 15 September 2020
Lufthansa Aviation Training’s latest simulator, an L3Harris EASA Level 2 FTD, has been certified and entered training. 15 September 2020
In celebration of its 10th anniversary in 2020, Spanish ATO One Air launched the Crew Flight Simulator Lab, which houses more than 20 commercial and general aviation simulators. In addition, One Air pilot and cabin crew students have been introduced to the V360E virtual cockpit and cabin from Aviation eLearning. 14 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 second section of this five part series is on Furloughs, Leaves of Absence, and the US CARES Act .
Kit discusses “what scares him more” than the coronavirus. Also, furloughs, leaves of absence, and what happens when the CARES Act expires in October. 14 September 2020
EPA Training Center in Curitiba, Brazil has received qualification for their FlightSafety ATR 42-500/42-300/72-200 full flight simulator. 14 September 2020
“Our world may not be the same as it was half a century ago, but aviation will continue to play a key role,” Airbus states as part of a new public relations campaign, #KeepTrustInAirTravel. 12 September 2020