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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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A major update to the Northeast Corridor Atlantic Coast Routes (NEC ACR), which was meant to relieve delays, is now experiencing its own delays due to the coronavirus. 21 July 2020
ATP Flight School accepted delivery of six new Piper Archer TXs and renewed a 100-aircraft order with Piper Aircraft, Inc. 21 July 2020
Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters holding company (part of Rostec State Corporation) has received qualification for their Ansat helicopter simulator. 21 July 2020
Bye Aerospace, developer of the all-electric eFlyer family of FAA Part 23-certified aircraft, announced completion of a $5 million strategic investment by a venture capital group earlier this year. 20 July 2020
Ibom Air, a scheduled airline operator owned by Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria, has awarded Avsoft International a long-term contract for online pilot training. 20 July 2020
Assuming everyone on board wears a mask, your risk of contracting coronavirus on an every-seat-full flight is about 1 in 4,300, according to a professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 20 July 2020
Graduates from the UK’s Skyborne Airline Academy can now start a new career as a drone pilot, thanks to a unique partnership with Flyby Technology, the leader in UK drone training and operation. 20 July 2020
147training.com, a FL Technics training division, has reached an astonishing milestone of 15,000 certificates issued to FL Technics’ students. 16 July 2020
While new technology and training aids have vastly improved ab initio pilot training, the full benefit of that investment can only be realised if applied by excellent instructors. CAT Europe Editor Chris Long, FRAeS, solicited views on the process from three key individuals at an innovative ATO.
Build a passion in aviation into the process, and the result is teaching which yields the best quality of a new generation of pilots (who are more than quick enough to identify genuine quality and buy into it.) That is the drive for the whole team of passionate individuals at Norwegian-based Pilot Flight Academy (PFA), who have deep aviation experience and are wholeheartedly engaged in the enterprise.
Now equipped with modern Diamond aircraft, PFA has plans to convert to all-electric powered aircraft to achieve the goal of a complete “green” training solution.
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Aviation Specialties Unlimited, was awarded the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Operations Inspectors and Aircraft Certification Pilots night vision goggle (NVG) contract while operating fixed-wing aircraft. 15 July 2020
ICAO has introduced a new series of implementation packages or ‘iPACKs’ to support States’ aviation response, recovery, and resilience efforts during the pandemic. 15 July 2020
With new scholarships being posted weekly, the 2021 Women in Aviation International (WAI)’s scholarship program officially opened and members can review dozens of scholarships. 14 July 2020
Alsim has made its first sale in New Zealand to Ardmore Flying School, based in Auckland. 14 July 2020
United Nations efforts to prevent trafficking in persons have taken an important step forward, with the launch of new online training to support the implementation of the ICAO-OHCHR Guidelines for Training Cabin Crew on Identifying and Responding to Trafficking in Persons. 14 July 2020
The flight training community is divided on how to best deliver Upset Prevention and Recovery Training. Rob Mark's article from 2019 talks with experts about the rationale behind their respective extended envelope training approaches. 13 July 2020
CPaT Global has extended their presence in the aviation training community to Apia, Samoa. CPaT has been selected by Samoa Airways to provide distance learning solutions for their aviation training needs. 13 July 2020
Airline simulator and training specialists, Aviation Insider have selected Resilient Pilot to provide their free pilot mentoring service. 13 July 2020
Micro Nav and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) have announced a partnership to support CANSO’s ANSPs Members for a best prepared restart of air traffic services. 10 July 2020
In light of the pandemic, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to use the 2019 emissions value for 2020 for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) “to avoid inappropriate economic burden on the aviation industry.” 9 July 2020
With the global economic downturn, criminal activity is on the rise. Airlines train their employees to spot potential sex trafficking victims, and to take action — safely. Rona Gindin reports.
At check-in, the ticket counter agent notices a young teenage girl with a man about 40. The man does all the talking, answers all questions, handles the passports. The girl keeps her eyes down. She’s just a grumpy adolescent with her dad, the airline employee assumes … yet something just does not feel right.
That duo could indeed be standard travelers. They could also be a victim and perpetrator of sex trafficking. Air travel is involved in 38% of human trafficking incidents, says Polaris, a Washington, DC-based organization that fights human trafficking.
That means it’s worth training aviation employees to spot potential human trafficking incidents, and to teach them which authorities to contact when a situation looks iffy.
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9 July 2020