FlightSafety promotes Suren Meras to executive director of operations
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FlightSafety International has promoted Suren Meras to executive director of operations for the company’s global network of business and commercial aviation Learning Centers. Meras’ responsibilities include pilot, maintenance, cabin safety, dispatch and instructor training as well as customer support, courseware development and simulator operations.
Meras joined FlightSafety in 2007 at the Toronto LearningCenter where he served as assistant center manager and director of training. Meraswas promoted to director, Training Operations in 2015 and then to senior directorof operations in 2018.
Meras holds Airline Transport Pilot certificates issued byEASA, the FAA and Transport Canada. He has been a qualified FAA Training Centerevaluator, and EASA Type Rating examiner and senior flight examiner. Meras haslogged over 19,000 flight hours and is type rated in the Bombardier CRJ seriesof aircraft, Dash 8 100, Dash 8 200, Q300 and Q400, PC-24 as well as the FokkerF-27 and Fokker 70/100.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and SenecaCollege where he studied Child Psychology and Business Administration. Merasalso earned an Executive MBA from the University of Texas in Dallas and holdsdiplomas in Law Enforcement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy andCanadian School of Private Investigation, and a certification diploma by theNTSB as an Aircraft Accident Investigator.
Prior to joining FlightSafety Meras was chief pilot, head oftraining, and a JAA senior examiner at Tyrolean Airways. He was also a captainat City Express Airlines and supervising flight and ground school instructor atCentral Airways Corporation.
