Here are some of the links
BBGA Member Airways Aviation ATPL training with an industry focus - BBGA
Airways Aviation introduces new pilot training pathway - Pilot Career News
New ATPL training with an industry focus - News - Pilot
They've done well to get it in a number of mags / websites.
If you read it, however, you'll see that it is long on rhetoric and short on detail. What it says is
"We've given a new name to our standard integrated CPL/IR MCC/JOC training programme".
Here's the copy
Airways Aviation has launched its flagship integrated ATPL course, Elite Pathways ProgrammeTM (EPP).
According to Airways Aviation, the EPP is a fully-integrated ATPL package which offers EASA approved training with a focus on student experience and industry-readiness.
Airways Aviation is an Approved Training Organisation, with Pilot Training Academies and Aviation Foundation Schools in a variety locations across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Airways Aviation’s Commercial Manager in the UK, Naveed Kapadia, explained, “We’ve worked with industry partners and aviation experts, to design and develop the EPP to provide a student-centric approach to training that offers additional skills, experience and opportunities beyond the standard ATPL course. It’s packaged with additional airline preparation experience and advanced flight training – including upset recovery, multi pilot and jet training.”
In addition to the launch of its EPP, Airways Aviation has also recently opened a fair-weather flying base in Huesca, Spain. Aside from the location, the base offers students a opportunity to undertake European (EASA) accredited training in European airspace.
Kapadia added, ‘This is a fantastic time to undertake pilot training – airlines are beginning to ramp up their recruitment of new pilots to meet future demand and at Airways Aviation we believe we are well placed to play a pivotal role in the training of those pilots globally.”
If they'd announced the purchase of a new A320 / B737-800 simulator to do the MCC/JOC in, then that would have been something to sit up and take note of. And it would certainly have been a step in the right direction to attracting more high quality, european-based students. But sadly, of course, it doesn't say that. It is just another media facelift
PR announcement without any substance..........
Come on boss-man..... Put your hand in your pocket and buy a fixed base Airbus A320 or Boeing 737-800 NG flight simulator from MPL-SS Holland. Now that would really take AA into the 21st century and be something to brag about.
