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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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Pictured (left to right:) Jessica Waite and Hanna Gillam, recipients of the first female ab initio pilot scholarship created by Airways Aviation in collaboration with the British Women Pilots' Association On 8 March 2018, Airways Aviation announced the two recipients of its new female ab initio pilot scholarship, Hanna... 14 March 2018
Legislation introduced on 7 March by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators aims to address the persistent shortage of aviation maintenance technicians. The bill would establish a new pilot programme to train maintenance professionals, help veterans transition to civilian careers and recruit new technicians. Grants of up to US$500,000... 14 March 2018
Australia-based Ryan Aerospace has announced the impending release of HELIMOD Mark III, a more sophisticated and modular version of the HELIMOD Mark II helicopter simulator control hardware recently exhibited at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas. HELIMOD Mark III is the result of two years’ work aimed at addressing the problem... 14 March 2018
UFA, Inc. (UFA) has delivered its ATTower tower simulator to the University of Massachusetts – Amherst (UMass Amherst). The ATTower system consists of a 7-channel simulator with three controller working positions (Local, Ground and Radar), three pseudo pilot positions and one instructor/data preparation position. UMass researchers will use ATTower’s... 14 March 2018
Ahead of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) conference being held on 19 April 2018 in Orlando FL. as part of the World Aviation Training Summit, Captain Kevin W. Daisey from Hawaiian Airlines, who is speaking at SECA, offers his thoughts on the next generation of airline... 13 March 2018
On 6 March, Netherlands-based AVION celebrated the inauguration of the Simliner flight training centre in Luqa, Malta, which has become the first to operate the new AVION Phantom 320 level D full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was qualified by EASA for level-D operations in November 2017. It will... 12 March 2018
Okay Airways has become the latest airline to join Boeing’s commercial Pilot Development Program (PDP) alongside other Chinese customers including Kunming Airlines and YTO Airlines. Through the PDP, which is designed to develop cadets into 737 type-rated first officers, Boeing will oversee the screening, selection and training of 100... 12 March 2018
FlightSafety International has appointed Keith Anderson as its new Director of Engineering for simulation products. In this role, Anderson is responsible for all aspects of the design, development and support of FlightSafety’s training devices, including full flight simulators and other training products and equipment such as MATRIX, FlightSafety’s integrated... 12 March 2018
CAE has signed an exclusive five-year pilot training agreement with low-cost carrier T'Way Air, which is based in Korea, and will support its increasing Boeing 737NG pilot training needs from the second half of 2018. “As we experience rapid growth and expand our fleet, we are looking to our... 12 March 2018
BAA Training has become the first in the Baltic states to operate an Airbus A320 door and slide trainer at its headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania. “At the moment, there are 331 airlines operating 7,527 A320 Family aircraft worldwide, 7,258 of which are operable A320 planes. In 2016, Airbus had... 12 March 2018
On 1 March 2018, ECS officially celebrated the grand opening of its new Huntsville, Alabama office in Cummings Research Park, which will focus on Aerospace programmes. The office will support ECS’ clients with cost-effective, quality products and services covering engineering, software development, 3D visualisation, augmented reality and virtual reality,... 7 March 2018
Following Merlin Flight Simulation Group’s successful international IT FLIES student aircraft design and handling competition at the UK’s University of Manchester in 2017, the group has confirmed the location will remain the same for 2018. Charles-Antoine Lassonnery, current President of The University of Manchester’s Flight Simulation Society, which is... 7 March 2018
Peach Aviation Limited (Peach) has announced plans to begin offering in-house training to pilots right from their initial steps towards obtaining their licenses. To date, Peach has hired pilots who have graduated from aviation universities or taken pilot courses at private universities and obtained the necessary licenses to fly... 7 March 2018
Alsim has sold an AL250 FNPT II simulator in the SEP/MEP configuration to its first Israeli customer, Sky Trainer Ltd. The AL250 will be installed in March 2018 and operated under Sky Trainer Ltd., an advanced simulator and pilot centre which operates in conjunction with Israel’s largest flight school,... 7 March 2018
UK-based Flyco Group is working in cooperation with BAA Training Academy to provide its newest customer – Kloten, Switzerland-based Helvetic Airways – with E-training systems and courseware. Helvetic Airways will use Flyco’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) and an extensive e-library of its courses for to train flight and... 6 March 2018
Halldale’s Business Manager Michelle Viens catches up with Zenia Bharucha, GoJet Airlines’ Manager of Pilot Recruiting (pictured) to find out the most common interview mistakes made by aspiring pilots and get some top tips for interview success. GoJet Airlines is sponsoring the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA)... 6 March 2018
Rostock System-Technik GmbH (RST) has been selected to build door trainers for Hong Kong Airlines which will be used to train crew on its Airbus A320, A330 and A350 aircraft. Each of the door trainers consists of a 1L main entry door with all functions available as per each... 2 March 2018
In response to customer demand, Avsoft has released a new general subjects course for pilots in relation to Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance technology. Avsoft’s new ADS-B course explores the important concepts, definitions, limitations, components, and procedures related to ADS-B surveillance technology. Topics discussed include system descriptions of... 2 March 2018
Pictured (left to right): Dominique MINEO, CEO of CEFA Aviation; and John Mansfield, Chief Digital Officer of GE Aviation CEFA Aviation and GE Aviation have come together to provide customers with a higher fidelity of data for airline flight safety analysis, operational efficiency and pilot training in a partnership... 2 March 2018
Kiel, Germany-headquartered software provider MINT Software Systems has reached its 20th anniversary following the introduction of its MINT Training Management System (MINT TRMS), which is now used by more than 60 aviation companies worldwide. MINT Software Systems began operations in 1998 and is now a recognised provider of training... 2 March 2018