CTC OPENS NEW AIRLINE PILOT TRAINING CENTRE IN USA

29 Jan 2014

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A global shortage of 235,000 pilots has prompted leading British flight training company CTC Aviation to open a new $7 million centre in the USA. The new centre will train up to 200 new pilots a year from all over the world.

CTC Aviation already has significant flight training operations in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and trains 2,000 pilots each year. The new USA facility will provide additional capacity to train a growing number of pilots for client airlines in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It will also enable a real focus upon the changes and recovery in North America and provide more direct access to the high growth markets of South America.

CTC Aviation's new Crew Training Centre is based at Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Arizona (pictured above right). The trainee pilots will be working alongside students of the Airline Training Center Arizona (ATCA), a Lufthansa Flight Training company.

ATCA will also supply both maintenance and instructor training support to CTC Aviation as part of a new Training Alliance. Cadets will enjoy extensive sports and leisure facilities at the on-airfield campus. The first course of trainees is scheduled to commence training in April 2014.

Rob Clarke, Group CEO of CTC Aviation said, "The airline industry has been predicting an impending pilot shortage for some time now and the world's airlines require pilots of all experience levels to help crew their expanding fleets.

"North America is a very vibrant and evolving market as well as being the biggest in the world, so having a strong presence here is a significant development for us.

"We are currently exploring a number of new opportunities globally that enable us to increase our capacity. As more airlines are asking us to develop tailored cadet programmes utilising our existing 'CTC Wings' programme as a blueprint, we have identified the opportunity for us to broaden our worldwide presence."

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