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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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Hong Kong-based Peak Pacific limited has purchased the eLearning content business of Helsinki-based Finnair Flight Academy (FFA). The acquisition of the eLearning library enables Peak Pacific to expand its footprint in the aviation eLearning market in Europe. Peak Pacific and Finnair Flight Academy were already engaged as business partners in... 5 July 2016
Pan Am International Flight Academy has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Silver Airways to provide qualified pilot applicants to the airline. As part of the agreement, Pan Am will offer Silver Airways, pilots from the Pan Am Career Pilot Academy, a FAA 141 flight school in Kissimmee, Florida, that... 1 July 2016
CPaT Global, LLC (CPaT) has expanded its relationship with Clovis Point Capital to provide additional funding to accelerate development of new, innovative products and garner new customers. This incremental funding will be used to expand the current product development and sales teams. In addition, CPaT has announced the appointment of... 1 July 2016
Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) has installed Diamond Visionics’ GenesisIG Visual System on its upgraded Aircrew Training Systems (ATS). The ATS’ are used to recreate and monitor the physiological effects of motion on aircrew, providing High-G, spatial disorientation, upset recovery and tactical flight training. Alper Kus, Aircrew Training System Business Unit... 1 July 2016
The Hibernia Management and Development Company (HMDC), the Research & Development Corporation (RDC) and CAE have inaugurated a new helicopter training and research and development (R&D) centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Fully funded by HMDC and RDC, the centre features the first civilian Level D helicopter simulator with night... 29 June 2016
Airways Aviation has appointed former global technical officer Stewart Ford as general manager, Australia, to lead its ongoing Australian and Asia-Pacific expansion. Ford, who has acted as interim general manager since May, has worked for the global aviation education and training provider since 2014. Joining first as national operations manager,... 28 June 2016
Thales has installed Australia’s first AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) at the CareFlight Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Academy at Brisbane International Airport. The Thales Reality H FFS for commercial helicopter flight training will be used to provide scenario-based flight training to AW139 helicopter operators in the region and to... 28 June 2016
Airbus Group SE has inaugurated its new headquarters facilities, called "Wings Campus", adjacent to the airport in Toulouse-Blagnac, France. Housing 1,500 employees, the new campus is located at the heart of Airbus' production and engineering activities and comprises the Group headquarters as well as integrated services buildings. The new facilities... 28 June 2016
TUIfly from Germany has ordered a V7000 Brigade™ cabin fire & smoke trainer from Flame Aviation in the Netherlands. The new fire trainer is scheduled for delivery in August and will be installed at the TUIfly training facilities at Hannover Airport in Germany. Flame's V7000 Brigade is a spacious fire... 27 June 2016
Flyco Training Solutions Group has signed a pan-European contract to deliver pilot training to Small Planet Airlines Group, across Lithuania, Germany and Poland. Already familiar with e-training tools, Small Planet decided to switch from a competing offering to Flyco due to a requirement for full customization of the system and... 27 June 2016
Adacel has completed installation and site acceptance testing for their MaxSim Tower Simulation System and Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE) training systems at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten. The Adacel MaxSim Tower simulator will enable training in all facets of aerodrome control. The ICE stations are independent systems that... 23 June 2016
Diamond Visionics, a provider of 3D visualization and image generation, gave a cash award to the winners of the “IT FLIES USA 2016” competition at the University of Dayton. The competition, sponsored by Merlin Flight Simulation Group, featured student teams from the University of Dayton and the University of Manchester... 22 June 2016
On behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), CAA International (CAAi) is set to open a brand new EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence (AML) electronic examination centre in Istanbul, Turkey. The first exams will be delivered on Thursday 22nd September 2016 at British Side Language School, in Besiktas,... 21 June 2016
Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) has put its new Bombardier C Series full flight simulator into service at its Zurich Airport training base. The simulator, which is the first in Europe to be certificated for pilot training, will be primarily used to train the C Series flightdeck crews of Swiss International Air... 21 June 2016
EDM is investing £1.3m to expand its manufacturing facility. The new 18,000 square feet structure is being built at EDM's headquarters in Manchester, UK, to meet the demands of the company's rapidly increasing order book. The purpose-built facility will house up to 40 employees across a range of disciplines and... 21 June 2016
Global Training Aviation has reached an agreement with Indra for the construction and operation of an ATR 72-600 simulator. The new simulator will be located on the premises of GTA SENASA in Madrid, along with the existing ATR 72-500 simulator, also manufactured by Indra, and it will complement the training... 20 June 2016
EDM welcomed a group of engineering students from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) last month. Accompanied by lecturers from the university's School of Engineering, the students spent an afternoon at EDM's 100,000 square feet manufacturing facility in Newton Heath, east Manchester, where they were given a guided tour by... 16 June 2016
Aviation training specialist Flyco Training Solutions Group has struck an agreement to supply e-learning courseware to Norlandair Iceland. Flyco's LMS will enable Norlandair's pilots to access study material from a portfolio of around 300 courses, at any time, on any device, even when offline. The system will automatically monitor user... 16 June 2016
Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the first Phenom 100E to Etihad Flight College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways. The flight school is in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and provides ab-initio pilot training for the airline’s expanding fleet. The school is the first to use the aircraft in the initial phase... 15 June 2016
India's largest and fastest growing low cost carrier, InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo) has partnered with CTC Aviation, to launch a new airline pilot career programme to train its future pilots. The IndiGo cadet pilot programme will see successful applicants achieving a dual - NZCAA and Indian DGCA - licence upon... 14 June 2016