Maintenance & Training

Royal Jordanian (RJ) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have announced a new partnership in the field of training.

EgyptAir Training Centre continues to expand in the MENA region.

Emirates-CAE Flight Training has announced a number of major certification successes for its unique dual-configuration full-flight simulator for Bombardier Challenger 604 and Challenger 605 business jets.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced the start of the 2013 Innovation Challenge Flying Competition.

Global risk management and security specialist, Pilgrims Group, has appointed John McCaffery as director for the Middle East following the company's continued expansion in the region.

Emirates has announced that its largest-ever batch of cadet pilots has graduated with 54 UAE national men and woman completing 30 months of theoretical study and practical training.

A number of new appointments has been announced by the company responsible for organising the Dubai Air Show.

Rolls-Royce has announced the appointment of John Gay as regional director, Middle East.

A special event has been held to mark the graduation ceremony of the Maharat programme at the Higher Technical College in Muscat, Oman.

Royal Jordanian and Amadeus IT Group SA reached an agreement by which Amadeus donated around 100 pre-owned desktop and laptop computers that were uplifted by Royal Jordanian free of charge from Amadeus headquarters in Madrid to Amman.

Oman Air has committed OR2 million to staff training in 2013, having already invested more than OR3.3 million over the previous two years.

Etihad Airways has plans to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin.

Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT) and the Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) have today announced a new service package to be offered exclusively to MEBAA members.

Cardiff Aviation's flight simulator technical team have completed baseline testing of Shaheen Air International's Boeing 737-400 flight simulator at its current location at the Turkish Airlines Flight Training Centre in Istanbul, Turkey.

Kuwait Air Force (KAF) has “unconditionally accepted” a pair of two F/A-18C Tactical Operational Flight Trainers (TOFTs) as being ready for training.

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced yesterday that two F/A-18C Tactical Operational Flight Trainers (TOFTs) built for the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) have been unconditionally accepted as ready for training.

Etihad Airways has appointed Mansour Al Marzouqi as its new general manager in Belarus.

Emirates and CAE have officially inaugurated their ultra-modern pilot training facility at the world-class commercial park Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), hosting an event attended by customers and officials from around the world.

Bahrain Airport Services (BAS) provided Oman Air staff with a 5-week specialised push-back training for their aircraft fleet.

EgyptAir Training Center has successfully passed the EASA audit carried out by the European aviation safety agency for the second year running.

The cooperation between EgyptAir Training Center and Yemen Airways has strengthened with recent training courses for the Yemeni airline.

Austrian simulator manufacturer Axis Group is to push for greater penetration in the Middle East and Africa following a restructuring and an investment in time and money from two leading business aviation specialists.

The Gulf Flight Safety Committee (GFSC) visited its birthplace when it held its annual general meeting in Muscat meeting last week. It left with a new name and new senior officers.

Nabil Sultan, whose career spans more than 20 years in commercial roles within Emirates, has been appointed the new divisional senior vice president, cargo.

Abu Dhabi Airports Company's (ADAC) Gulf Centre for Aviation Studies (GCAS) and Thales Université, the training and education arm of Thales Group, have signed an MoU that aims at exploring opportunities for establishing training solutions targeting high-level professional and academic programmes with a focus on technical, engineering, maintenance and project management training in the field of aviation.