To support the long-term career success of pilot candidates and to help address the shortage, Leading Edge Flight Academy (LEFA) in Bend, Oregon, and Ravn Alaska, based in Anchorage, have entered a strategic partnership.

Boeing's 2022 Pilot and Technician Outlook forecasts demand for 2.1 million new aviation personnel over the next 20 years to support the recovery in commercial air travel.  

Airline Pilot Club, an online pilot preparation platform, and Symbiotics, the provider of ADAPT Pilot Psychological Assessments, have partnered to provide a range of pilot aptitude assessments to support future pilots at the start of their career.

AeroGuard Flight Training Center has created a tuition partnership in collaboration with Meritize, where pilots-in-training can qualify for merit-based financing, which can in many cases reward individual borrowers for their past academic and military experiences.

United Airlines has unveiled plans to invest $100 million to expand its sole training center, located in Denver, Colorado, near Denver’s Central Park.

Jet Access Flight Training has launched a new Pilot Development Program to support the aviation industry’s efforts to combat the growing pilot shortage and assist with community development in Bartholomew County, Indiana. 

The International Air Transport Association has urged Asia-Pacific states to further ease border measures to accelerate the region’s recovery from Covid-19.

ICAO and the Government of Singapore have signed a three-year extension to the Developing Countries Training Programme.

Sixteen students have graduated from the Latvian airline’s airBaltic Pilot Academy, receiving a commercial pilot license upon completion of the full-time airline transport pilot program. 

The American Airlines Cadet Academy and American Airlines Credit Union have introduced a new partnership, bringing an additional suite of new financial options for incoming candidates accepted into the Cadet Academy program.