Aviation training centre BAA Training plans to accept 140% more Ab Initio students for the next school year starting from September 2012. Flight Training Organization (FTO) increased capabilities to accept 28 new students, which in total will result in 48 Ab Initio students on 2012 September season. Throughout 2012 BAA Training Ab Initio School has expanded its capacities including fleet, premises [...]
Today, more than 270 airlines are banned from crossing European airspace. 70% of the countries on the list are African, the rest are from Asia and the CIS. Though the majority of the blacklisted companies didn’t ever had flights to European countries, even those air carriers currently permitted to operate in the EU will soon face a new challenge – [...]
In February 2012 China’s aviation industry representatives, along with their international partners, conducted the All-China Pilot Job Fair in Florida, which captured the attention of more than 1000 US pilots. The lack of balance in the global pilot market has caused some flight crew ’nationality’ issues, basically in the form of making current flight crews increasingly multilingual and multicultural. Unless [...]
Aviation experts at Locatory.com note that a lot of modern airlines are still using the 20th century solutions for solving their spare part supply chain issues. But with the global aircraft fleet rapidly expanding airlines worldwide are to face significantly increasing MRO-related expenses. And for that reason air carriers should no longer proceed with ‘the old school’ methods and try [...]
While the rest of the world is facing the issue of pilot surplus, aviation markets in the Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa are seriously concerned with how to deal with the unstoppably growing pilot demand. These culturally, economically and socially distinct regions apply specific methods to fulfil the requirements for professional aviation personnel training programs. Flightglobal.com states that [...]
According to Locatory.com, Russian airlines spend over $170 mln. on foreign-manufactured aircraft spare parts. But there are no common practices or procedures regarding the dismantled aggregates, which have been changed due to defect detection or have exceeded their service life. Generally, spare parts in ‘As Removed’ condition cost about 15-20% of the original price. Thereby, Russian air companies accumulate $25-30 [...]
In February 2012 Boeing signed a record-braking $22.4 billion order for 230 Boeing 737s. Aviation market is currently recovering after the latest consecutive economic crises and the number of new aircraft orders is rapidly increasing. However, it is still unclear who will pilot the expanding global aircraft fleet in the near future. In order to pilot Boeing 737 some airlines [...]
Several days ago the Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation finally announced the main reasons for the Lufthansa problematic landing in July 2010. Among the major factors causing problems during the flight the Authority listed the Captain’s attempt to take control of the aircraft without alerting the First Officer. Failure to coordinate actions resulted in both flight crews acting [...]
