Anna Tran
Flying High in a Man’s World.
We live in the 21st century, the human civilisation era, gender equality is still a controversial topic across different sectors and cultures in the world. While the sky is open to everyone, there is a wide gap between numbers of male and female pilots in the aviation industry. Today, I would like to share an inspiring story of one of Brookfield’s female pilots, Sheetal Somla from South Africa. She is currently flying for Bamboo Airways in Vietnam as an Airbus 320 First Offic
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Siya Sun
Start Up Airlines: Getting an AOC and the Right Postholders
Starting up a company is never easy, starting an airline has all sorts of specific challenges that are hard to be estimated the first time around. Starting an airline requires a substantial investment for completing the certification process, leasing or purchasing planes, recruiting, training, route planning, facilitating maintenance paying personnel and purchasing a range of services and securing take-off and landing slots at different airports. It sounds like if you own a l
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Elaine He
Pilots’ Mental Health: Are Airlines Doing Enough?
Airlines Unprepared for Mandatory Psychological Evaluations A survey has recently been completed targeted at gathering insight and opinion around the new EASA Regulations into psychological testing of Pilots. This survey, conducted by the company Symbiotics, has provided some useful yet concerning information about the readiness of the aviation industry to comply with the new rules that come into force in July 2020. Of the European Pilot respondents, only 10% are very / extre
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Jose Rojas
Multiculturalism in Brookfield, The Key to Success.
Working in Brookfield is the most rewarding experience. It has been a time when I’ve grown professionally and personally. Of all the list of aspects that I would like to share, today I want to use these lines to talk about the experience of working in a multicultural team. When people visit Brookfield for the first time they get surprised by the mix of accents, and languages spoken at the same time. According to David George, CEO of Brookfield Aviation: “Diversity has been on
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Paul Osorio
Paris Air Show: The Positive and the Negative
Paris was on the spotlight during the week June 17-23 with one of the most important Air Shows in 2019 held at Le Bourget. Our expectations in the weeks ahead of the airshow were optimistic about the performance of the commercial deals closed by Embraer and ATR in the growing regional sector worldwide. We have a solid experience supplying reputable airlines operating in the regional market such as Avianca, Air Astana, Royal Air Maroc, Cambodia Angkor Air among others. Hence,
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Dea Hamiti
The Future Look of Air Force One
Over the past few years the US has been negotiating with Boeing over replacements for Air Force One. Last year the US formally ordered two 747-8s to replace the current 747 – 200s, which are expected to be delivered in 2024. At first glance, before diving into what the new version of Air Force One will be, it’s best to look at its past history and what planes they have used before. The very first Air Force One was a Douglas Dolphin Amphibian in 1933 and was used by Franklin
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Carlos Guerrero
Looking for a Brighter Future as a Pilot.
Stepping aside from your comfort zone, culture and customs to look for a brighter future. I have talked to many pilots in Latin America from all over the Continent, people from Argentina to Mexico, and I could say each pilot has different goals and convictions, and depending on that, they could accept or not an international job to take advantage of the outstanding opportunities and benefits that this career could provide them abroad. Many pilots haven’t realized how much the
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Elaine He
End of an Era.
Last month saw the retirement of two of Brookfield’s longest serving employees, Debra Romagnuolo and Felicity Gillespie, who had been with our company for 15 and 14 years respectively. In their long careers with the company, Debra (office manager at Brookfield HQ) and Felicity ( I.T. and database manager) have seen massive growth of the company and have been instrumental in its facilitation. Brookfield CEO David George with Felicity (left) and Debra. “Nobody could have had mo
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Ly Tran
Airline Safety Records – No Room for Complacency
Air travel is considered to be one of the safest transportation forms, however air accidents still occur. According to Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC) - based on the measurement of Revenue Passengers Kilometres, fatalities among all occupants on board, hull losses, incidents, IOSA, time weighting factor and the transparency of the controlling authority of Aircraft Accident Investigation, Emirates in UAE was rated the safest airline in 2018, followed by Norw
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