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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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Chuck Weirauch takes a look at the unique training challenges facing US regional airlines while complying with new aviation law. With the clock ticking towards August 2, 2013, when the sections of Public Law 111-216 that require airline first officers to have become ATP certified and accrue 1,500 hours of... 25 April 2013
Chris Long journeys east to investigate the training and simulation expertise of Japan’s largest airline. As Yong Choi, Supervisor Flight Crew Standards indicates, the first time All Nippon Airways operated under that name was in 1957, when it started to service the domestic market of some 123 million people; international... 25 April 2013
Eric Hinson has been appointed as president of SimCom Training Centers. Hinson, who will report directly to Wally David, the company's chief executive officer, will oversee and direct the activities of SimCom's four training center locations and 56 operational simulators. 24 March 2013
Robert (Rob) Lewis has been named vice president and general manager of CAE’s global Business Aviation, Helicopter and Maintenance Training business unit. 24 March 2013
David Rushton has been appointed as Commercial Marketing Manager, Visual Simulation Systems. His main responsibilities are to identify and pursue new business opportunities for FlightSafety's visual simulation systems among commercial airlines. Jim Christiansen has joined as vice president, International Business Development. He will lead the company’s efforts to increase customer... 24 March 2013
Rudolf Schmid has been appointed as Swiss AviationTraining's new Director of Quality & Project Management. He succeeds Karl Spirig, who, after several years' service in the post and on Swiss AviationTraining's top management, retired at the end of January. 24 March 2013
The Halldale Group has announced the appointment of David Lim as a Director for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. David will take on responsibility for regional sales of simulation and training media and events for healthcare, defence and aerospace. He has 16 years’ experience in sales, marketing and... 24 March 2013
Barco has signed a Service Partnership Agreement with ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) in Singapore to provide first-level support services for Barco’s Training & Simulation products in the Southeast Asia region. As Barco’s Training & Simulation business is growing rapidly across the Southeast Asia region, the company has decided... 24 March 2013
In 2013, ICAO, with the cooperation of Member States, will organize regional symposia which will be generously hosted by civil aviation authorities and TRAINAIR PLUS members. The regional symposia will build on the success of the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) and TRAINAIR PLUS Regional Conferences, held in 2011,... 24 March 2013
WestJet Encore, the new regional subsidiary of WestJet, will work with New Zealand's merlot.aero to launch the first true cloud-based airline operations management system in 2013. The merlot.aero system is the first fully cloud-based airline operations management system designed specifically for the airline industry. It combines the power of the... 24 March 2013
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has announced the addition of Aircraft Flight Coordinator Training (AFCT) to its comprehensive online training programs. The AFCT is a certificate program that provides core flight coordinator knowledge with an emphasis on safety and technical expertise to assist crews with in-depth flight planning. The... 24 March 2013
MINT Software Systems and ASTech have agreed to collaborate on the development of an interface between MINT’s TMS and ASTech’s GEMS. MINT TMS is a Compliance & Training Management System for record keeping, as well as scheduling pilot, cabin crew, technical and air navigation service training activities. GEMS (General Examination... 24 March 2013
Iceland Air has purchased Avsoft’s B737NG Aircraft Systems Course for maintenance personnel, taking advantage of its flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate. BHL comes with free customization and access to Avsoft’s library of aircraft system... 24 March 2013
Hellenic Air Training Services has purchased Avsoft’s B737 Classic (B737-300/400/500) Aircraft Systems Courseware. The Aircraft Systems Courseware, in conjunction the new ICE Suite package, lets users set course qualification and recurrent due date; tag course pages to create recurrent ground school modules; modify a course’s content – including graphics and... 24 March 2013
Didavia Aviation Academy based in Athens, Greece, has expanded its library of Avsoft’s CBT/WBT courseware with the purchase of the new general subject matter course, Low Visibility Operations. 24 March 2013
South Africa's Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has won the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Worldwide Top Regional Training Partner award for the second consecutive year. The award celebrated the academy's achievements in human capital development within the air transport industry in 2012. The group, which has trained more... 24 March 2013
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has opened a brand new state-of-the-art training facility, Monarch Aircraft Engineering Training Academy (MAETA). Based at London Luton Airport, the training academy has undergone a complete refurbishment providing several new theatre style classrooms and facilities for Composite and Fibre optic training, a technology that is now... 24 March 2013
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with three Singapore-based polytechnics, offering training and employment for new flight attendants. The MoUs, signed with Nanyang Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic and Tamasek Polytechnic, will see selected students offered training with SIA and possibly employment contracts to become full-time cabin crew. The... 24 March 2013
RP Aero Systems has been awarded a contract by British Airways to manufacture and install a Boeing 787 door trainer at their Training Centre in Cranebank, near Heathrow, UK. The trainer will consist of a 1L main door with crew attendant seat, EDW dimming system and will be a true... 24 March 2013
West Atlantic, the UK's largest independent cargo carrier, has announced it will be recruiting a new intake of cadet pilots for their pilot sponsorship programme based at Coventry Airport. The sponsorship scheme is funded fully up front by West Atlantic Airlines. Once type rated and employed as a West Atlantic... 24 March 2013