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7 April 2025 Rick Adams Tanja Schmidt began her role with the International Air Transport Association in September 2024, inheriting a department which manages hundreds of training courses across dozens of airline-related categories. She sat down with Rick Adams to discuss how the role is going and what training changes are coming.
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AAG has partnered with BDO for a ‘Study Now, Pay Later’ Program, an educational loan program in a form of a home loan designed to assist AAG’s trainees in funding their pilot training program. 15 August 2022
After one of the biggest aviation industry crises, Lufthansa Technik AG's apprentice training program this year has returned in terms of numbers to roughly where it was in 2020: 186 young people will begin their apprenticeship in Germany. 15 August 2022
The S&T sector’s financial strength is being supported by an uptick in new aircraft orders, and by extension, an increased demand for trained and qualified community professionals. 15 August 2022
Patria and Xfly have expanded their pilot training cooperation. Xfly will provide a conditional employment contract to Patria´s integrated ATP students with an A320 type rating. 12 August 2022
Aptima, Inc., has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force to assist the Air Education and Training Command’s Detachment 62 to determine the pilot proficiencies and training needed for eVTOL operators. 11 August 2022
Archer Aviation Inc. has received a $10 million pre-delivery payment from United Airlines for 100 of the company’s initial production eVTOL aircraft. 11 August 2022
ATP Flight School has formed a hiring partnership with Wheels Up Experience Inc., a provider of on-demand private aviation in the United States, offering ATP graduates with a streamlined pathway to First Officer positions and long-term careers in aviation. 9 August 2022
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract with Mesa Airlines, in which CPaT will be providing Aircraft Systems Courses, Aviation Specialty Courses (General Subjects), and its immersive Aircraft Procedure Suite for Mesa. 9 August 2022
Two Airline Training Organizations in the Philippines – Alpha Aviation Group and First Aviation Academy – inked a partnership agreement for the First Officer Transition program. 9 August 2022
Epic Flight Academy’s Part 147 School recently achieved two important milestones: its first graduating class of aircraft mechanic students and receiving approval from the Department of State to accept international students. 9 August 2022
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. 9 August 2022
Avelo Airlines and US Aviation Academy are partnering to create a pathway for aviation-career minded students. 8 August 2022
Pipistrel (now a Textron company) is upending the training aircraft market. 8 August 2022
Ostensibly, vAAETS was a conference about aviation training in Korea, and certainly that was the primary emphasis of the presentations. 8 August 2022
Southwest has welcomed Angelo State University as a university partner in Destination 225°, the airline's First Officer development and recruitment program 5 August 2022
Alpha Aviation Group signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Holy Angel University for an On-the-Job Training Program for the university’s B.S Aeronautical Engineering students. 5 August 2022
Airbus Helicopters has started construction of a test centre for CityAirbus NextGen, with company representatives, politicians, and business leaders attending the ground-breaking ceremony. 4 August 2022
AAR CORP. has launched Fellowship Programs with Vincennes University and Aviation Institute of Maintenance in Indianapolis, Indiana, to continue expanding efforts to attract talent to the field. 3 August 2022
Skyborne Airline Academy is partnering with Delta Air Lines as a flight training provider for the Delta Propel Program, the airline’s pilot career pathway. 2 August 2022
ALSIM’s ALSR Flight Training Device on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 was purchased by All In Aviation based in Las Vegas. 2 August 2022