United Airlines has launched “Aviate”, its new pilot recruitment program and career website, offering aspiring and established pilots more opportunities and the fastest paths to achieving their dreams and becoming a United First Officer and, ultimately, Captain. The program’s signature, structured career pathways offer pilots at all stages of their journey – from college training
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), representing approximately 10,000 Southwest Airlines’ pilots, has filed a lawsuit against Boeing Co alleging that the grounding of the 737 MAX has cost its pilots over US$100 million in lost wages. In a statement, SWAPA said the lawsuit states that its pilots had agreed to fly 737 MAX jets
At the 8th China Air Finance Development Summit in Tianjin, Lili Zhou, General Manager, and David Yu, Chairman, of China Aviation Valuation Advisors announced the founding and launch of the first specialist aviation valuation onshore firm in China and the official aviation valuation partner of Tianjin Dongjiang FTP (DJFTP) government. Leveraging upon the highest level
Fourteen days after Thomas Cook Group was declared bankrupt, leaving over 140,000 holidaymakers stranded abroad, the U.K.s Civil Aviation Authority announced on Monday, October 7, that a flight from Orlando, Florida, carrying 392 passengers and which landed at Manchester Airport at 8.31 a.m. local time, marked the completion of two-week-long Operation Matterhorn. Involving 150 aircraft
CAE has inaugurated two new CAE training centers in the United Kingdom -London Gatwick and Manchester- to support the start of its ten-year exclusive pilot training agreement with easyJet announced in November 2018, as well as the growing training needs of airlines in Europe. A third training center will be inaugurated in Milan, Italy, on
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg has announced several immediate actions he is taking to strengthen the company’s enduring commitment to product and services safety. The actions follow recent recommendations from the Boeing Board of Directors that were the result of a five-month independent review of the company’s policies and processes for the design
Magnetic MRO Training, an EASA Part-147 approved type training organization, has re-opened its training facility after the most recent expansion. The new premises were opened on Thursday, September 19, 2019 and are aimed to be used mainly by Magnetic MRO and Estonian Aviation Academy for theoretical technical training for future aircraft mechanics. The recent expansion
Fraport, the operator of Frankfurt Airport, and AeroGround Flughafen München, a wholly-owned ground handling subsidiary of Flughafen München (the operator of Munich Airport), have developed a joint virtual reality (VR) training tool for ground handling operations. New digital training content was created for the joint VR tool. One training module, for example, serves to practice
JetBlue, New York’s Hometown Airline®, is converting its fleet of baggage tractors and belt loaders – the largest part of its ground service equipment fleet at New York’s JFK International Airport – to electric powered. With support from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York Power Authority (NYPA), JetBlue
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, has announced that its ATR Emergency Evacuation Trainer for Cebu Pacific successfully passed its Factory Acceptance Test. This is the third device Spatial has manufactured for Cebu Pacific and covers all of the cabin exits in the aircraft. Spatial Composite Solutions in an ISO9001-certified provider of cabin
