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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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Warren Christie, JetBlue’s vice president of Operational Planning and Training, outlined his air carrier’s training strategy in a far ranging interview with Group Editor Marty Kauchak on February 21, 2014. Insights from their discussion are provided in this article. JetBlue’s ambitious business model includes fleet restructuring, route expansion and other... 6 March 2014
Chris Long visits Scandinavian airline Novair and profiles the training expertise of this charter carrier. For many cabin crew, making their way out of a smoke-filled emergency evacuation trainer, with its noise (and in some cases movement) and escaping via the slide, is a construct that already provides a pretty... 6 March 2014
entrol’s A320 simulator has received FNPT II MCC qualification from the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority. The A320 simulator was purchased by DL-Aviation to offer MCC and JOT courses and train normal and emergency procedures of the A320. 22 November 2013
Bombardier has appointed training services provider FlightPath International (FPI) of Toronto as its Authorized Technical Training Provider (ATTP) for all entitlement and recurrent technical training for Bombardier's CRJ Series commercial aircraft and Challenger 850, Challenger 870 and Challenger 890 business jets. Under the ATTP agreement, FPI instructors will deliver aircraft technical... 31 August 2013
Chuck Weirauch explores the helicopter simulation training industry and provides an update on recent progress. With commercial helicopter sales now anticipated to increase significantly in just about every major world market, and in China at an annual double digit rate, for example, it would only follow that the number of... 31 August 2013
Willem-Jan Derks profiles aviation training in Latin America. Latin America, with its 590 million inhabitants, has been an increasingly important market for over a decade now and seems to be continuing that trend. It was one of the few regions of the world that continued to show growth during... 31 August 2013
Improved training methods, sophisticated hardware and a mindset change of management is helping to evolve cabin evacuation training. Robert W. Moorman investigates. Two aircraft accidents in recent years highlight the life and death importance of cabin evacuation training. One was the much-publicized 2009 ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, a US Airways... 31 August 2013
Higher order learning technologies and content, including human factors topics are among the advancements in community maintenance training programs, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. New personnel in community maintenance programs are learning and refreshing their skill sets with cutting edge technology. At the same time, human factors and other... 31 August 2013
Airlines and training centres seeking to acquire their own full-flight simulator have at least 10 Level D manufacturers to choose from. Rick Adams looks at the players and the process. “It’s a more-for-less market,” admits Dean Fisher, CAE’s global leader for simulation technology sales. CAE has dominated openly competitive sales... 31 August 2013
With new projection technologies entering the entertainment, scientific and home theater markets, Chuck Weirauch spoke with leaders in the civil aviation simulation industry to gain their perspective on how, when, and if such technologies might become available in this market in the near future. 4K Projectors The goal of eye-limiting... 31 August 2013
Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest growing aviation markets, and its training industry is advancing in parallel. Chris Long reports from this developing country. In recent years the specialists in the commercial aviation training world have focussed successively on the regions where the major aircraft orders have been placed. 31 August 2013
The civil aviation industry has been busy these past few years setting a number of historical records, including aircraft orders, personnel demand and most importantly – safety. 2012 represented the safest year ever recorded, and with the introduction of an entirely new generation of efficient aircraft, and the continual gravitational... 31 August 2013
The Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) returns to a favoured conference venue, Bangkok, this year. From September 17-18, the show will explore aviation flight training and simulation from the Asia Pacific region. All eyes are turned to Asia to understand and calibrate the scale of growth in aviation;... 31 August 2013
The 16th World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) flew into the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, Florida, April 16-18. With 1,000 attendees hailing from 49 countries and 94 airlines, WATS demonstrated again that it is the largest gathering of aviation training professionals. The four conference tracks - pilot... 31 August 2013
Chris Long reports on a new apprenticeship scheme recently launched in the UK. One of the major challenges for many countries is the funding of the expensive training for aviation professionals, in particular for those wishing to start pilot training. The high cost has put it out of the reach... 31 August 2013
For most people in the aviation training industry, the key benchmarks and predictions come from the major global players of ICAO, IATA and, of course, the aircraft manufacturers. Both Airbus and Boeing apply considerable resources to research and publish comprehensive forecasts of future demand, and for those in the industry... 31 August 2013
Held in Bangkok, Thailand, the 2013 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) explored aviation flight training and simulation from the Asia Pacific region. Chris Long reports. The recent boost to aircraft orders at the 15th Aviation Expo China 2013 in Beijing showed that, if any proof were needed, the continuing... 30 August 2013
Chuck Weirauch provides an update on the use of mobile and paperless training. With the world's two largest airliner manufacturers taking major steps to foster the implementation of iPads as Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) into the cockpits of their aircraft, it's becoming clear that more air carriers will adopt this... 30 August 2013
The military use of unmanned aerial systems as tools for surveillance and weapons delivery is well known. Can these systems find a place in the civil world? Robert W. Moorman investigates. Washington D.C is to politics what Las Vegas is to gambling. And there is always some controversy swirling around... 30 August 2013
As Delta and American Airlines receive new models of aircraft into their fleets, the two air carriers are using technology-enabled training strategies to prepare their pilots for the transition, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports. Delta has an ambitious plan to introduce 88 “new” aircraft – Boeing 717s it purchased from... 30 August 2013