Todd Skaggs
British Aviation Experience: Inspiring the Next Generation
With the British Aviation Experience going into its fourth year, it has been a great success story for students wanting a career in aviation. The majority of past students who have left school, in some way or another have entered into the industry. This includes both pilot training and engineer training, with many going on to higher education with a focus on a specific discipline within the industry. On the summer course, students will experience many aspects of the life of a
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Quan Nguyen
2020 Airline Industry Outlook
Generally speaking, last year was a year of slowing passenger growth and declining cargo traffic volumes. The airline industry has been faced with a number of externalities. Slowing global economic, regional and international trade wars, geopolitical tensions and social unrest, not to mention uncertainty over Brexit all came together to make a more difficult than forecasted business environment for airline operators. As a result, many airlines have been forced to go out of bu
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Jonny Short
The 7 Continents Challenge: Promoting STEM Learning
Aviation is lucky enough to cover all of the four STEM topics; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics under one sector, so why is the UK falling behind other countries with 8 out of 10 STEM businesses (89%) finding it difficult to hire staff with the relevant skills? According to a recent aviation industry survey regarding STEM careers, the world as it currently stands will require 790,000 new civil aviation pilots, 754,000 new maintenance technicians, and 890,000
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Chris Rigby
Have Pilots Forgotten How to Fly?
Aircraft are crashing because pilots have either forgotten how to fly or never learnt in the first place, according to the US aviation regulator. Over-reliance on automation has eroded basic skills and created a dangerous dependency on computer systems, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said. “When automation ceases to work properly, pilots who do not have sufficient experience of manual control and proper training may be hesitant or not have enough skills to take
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Eneida Poveda
New Brookfield Alliance Promotes A-320 Pilots
In Colombia, as in other South American countries, most Cadets who have experience in small jets or turboprops, or who are type rated with low hours on A320 and Embraer 190 for example, are finding it very difficult to obtain a foreign opportunity without reaching the 1500 total hours as a general requirement and also with only a CPL. Eneida Poveda from Brookfield provides expert advice to Colombian pilots via remote video link The full ATPL licence for many of them is almost
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Jose Rojas
Exoskeletons: A Promise to Revolutionise Aviation
Since we were children, we have all dreamed about being superhumans or having superpowers such as flying, having super strength, teleportation or travelling back and forward in time. Well, it is now 2020 and this new decade promises to be a great time for technological advances particularly in the fields of strength and endurance, and as expected, the aviation industry is developing research and resources to enhance these new technologies into numerous processes, maki
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China Team
Time to consider working in Japan?
Spring Airlines in Japan is a growing low-cost carrier serving the Japanese and regional Asian market, operating a fleet of B-737-800 aircraft. An expanding route network and new aircraft arriving have resulted in some fabulous opportunities for captains to join the airline, initially on a long-term basis. Let’s find out why you should choose to work in Japan. If you are interested in this opportunity after reading this article, just click the link below to find the informati
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Paul Osorio
The New Battlefield for Airlines
Research a flight, book a ticket, board a plane, try and fail to sleep and land; the basic aspects of flying for most people have not changed since the advent of aviation. However, in 2020 a revolution in innovation for airlines is awaiting. Key joint ventures and strategic alliances of capital groups are focused on the evolution of the airline industry. For instance, Air France and KLM with its Big Blank project; a studio that will explore the industry to identify tech-centr
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Elaine He
Say “Yes” to Child Free Zones
Nowadays, parents like to take their kids travelling domestically and abroad for a holiday, but if babies and grown ups can spend the whole voyage in comfort that would be much better. The fear is that they may cry and cause dissatisfaction among other passengers. In recent years, some airlines set up child-free zones on their aircraft, like India's low-cost airline Indigo, Air Asia X, Malaysia Airlines and Scoot Airline. The passengers can pay extra money for an area which d
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