Maintenance & Training

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

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

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.
Business Aviation

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.
Maintenance & Training

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

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.
Maintenance & Training

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

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

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.
Maintenance & Training

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

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

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.
Maintenance & Training

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.
Maintenance & Training

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

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.
Maintenance & Training

The Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) has announced that it will be conducting the Aeroplane Electrical Wiring Interconnection System Training Programme (EWIS).
Maintenance & Training

Members of the Kuwait Air Force have just completed a six month training course at the Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS) facility of Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company.
Maintenance & Training

Saudi Aviation Flight Academy (SAFA) has been declared as a Part 141 approved Pilot School by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SAFA ihas become the only flight school in KSA with a Part 141 approval by GACA
Maintenance & Training

UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has concluded a training course on strategic planning in the civil aviation industry in Cali, Colombia, with the participation of 50 specialized attendees representing different member states of the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (LACAC).
Maintenance & Training

Malaysia Airlines has announced the appointment of Mr. Nur Shaffik Haris as General Manager – UAE & Gulf, tasked to spearhead expansion of the airline's foothold in the growing Gulf region.
Maintenance & Training

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced today that it has been awarded a contract modification to build the Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) two F-16 Block 52 Weapon Tactics Trainers (WTTs), two brief/debrief systems and one mission observation centre.
Maintenance & Training

Dubai Aerospace (DAE) subsidiary StandardAero has named Russell Ford as its new Chief executive (CEO) .
Maintenance & Training

Qatar Airways integrated training centre in Doha will be featuring Boeing 787-8 Full Flight Simulators (FFS) developed by L-3 Link, later this year.
Maintenance & Training

Former search and rescue helicopter commander Mark Kelly has been appointed vice president – marketing at helicopter leasing specialist Lease Corporation International (LCI) to focus on the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
Maintenance & Training

International service company Serco and Iraq's Al Burhan Group, have signed a new agreement with the Iraq Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) to continue providing Air Traffic Control (ATC) services, training and support at Baghdad International Airport and extending the partnership's presence in Iraq.
Maintenance & Training