Airways trains next contingent of Saudi Arabian air traffic controllers

Thirty Saudi Arabian students to start air traffic control training with air traffic services provider Airways. This is the fourth group of students to be trained by Airways from Saudi Arabia’s civil air services provider, the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia (GACA) – helping to fill a critical gap in the Middle East region for the training of air traffic controllers. The students will spend their first year in New Zealand studying English with either Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) in Nelson or Kaplan International College in Auckland, before commencing a 12-month air traffic control course at Airways’ Palmerston North training campus. They will complete an intensive Aviation English module during their first eight weeks on campus.