The Argentine Airline Pilots Association (APLA) has raised concerns over delays in reopening wage negotiations with Aerolíneas Argentinas and Optar, warning that the situation could escalate into a labor conflict. The union accuses the airline of failing to uphold the…
Air India has placed an order for 34 trainer aircraft as it prepares to start training cadet pilots at its flying school in Amravati, Maharashtra, by the second half of 2025, the airline said on Thursday. The order includes 31…
The FAA’s pilot dataset provides a great look at this skill pool. We are focusing on ATP holders. We annoyed the ATC holder profession before , so we want to be careful this time. ALPA offers an upbeat assessment of…
We noted the US airline industry has had a pilot problem before. That analysis won us no friends in the pilot community but encouragement from airline managers. So here we go again – pilot salaries are skyrocketing, and what is…
The global airline industry faces a pilot shortage in the post-Covid environment. Internationally, that shortage will be short-lived, as training a new pilot from an ab-initio program to flying in the right seat takes 250-500 hours. Several training initiatives are…
Loft Dynamics (formerly VRMotion AG) replaces legacy flight simulators and makes training safer. Traditional full-motion flight simulators are expensive, giant apparatuses only available in limited training centers built specifically to house them. Students typically are forced to complete most training…