Airbus is taking a bottom-up approach to filling a looming airline pilot shortage – by expanding its own training system to include ab initio schooling. By starting with raw beginners, Airbus hopes to ...

BAA Training, an independent aviation training center, has expanded its ab initio flight school in Europe — adding one more flight base in Spain. The company, currently operating in Lithuania and ...

flydubai, the Dubai-based carrier, announced recently the launch of its Ab Initio Pilot Training programme, in partnership with international overseas flight training partners. This initiative comes ...

Middle Eastern carrier Flydubai is establishing an ab initio pilot-training scheme intended to ensure it can meet cockpit crew demand for its expanding fleet. Flydubai has a fleet of 88 Boeing 737s.

Clark Fraser says that a new pilot with about 340 hr. should not become First Officer of an RJ (AW&ST July 18, p. 6). He obviously isn't familiar with the concept of ab-initio training. When I started ...

DULUTH, Minn. & KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cirrus Aircraft today announced that United Aviate Academy (UAA) has purchased a fleet of twenty-five TRAC SR20 aircraft for its program. These ...

Somant Heeralal (left) and Yadram Ramcharran were selected to learn to fly helicopters, and they will eventually train to fly offshore. © Omni Helicopters ...

The training giant has added the German air force to its list of defense customers that have turned to civilian contractors for initial flight training. CAE has partnered with Airways Aviation, which ...

DUBAI, 22nd May 2025 (WAM) -- flydubai, the Dubai-based carrier, announced today the launch of its Ab Initio Pilot Training programme, in partnership with international overseas flight training ...