Industry Addendum: Training
Fiji and Qantas to invest in flight academies
May 1st 2018
Fiji is building a US$45 million cockpit crew training centre, the Fiji Training Academy, adjacent to the island nation’s international airport at Nadi. Read More » Part of Phase 1, to be opened next March, will house two CAE Full Flight Simulators for B737 MAX and A330 aircraft.
The US$20 million Qantas Pilot Academy, scheduled to begin training programs in 2019, will initially train 100 pilots a year, mainly for its aircraft fleets. It is planned for the facility to graduate 500 pilots a year in five years and include third party clients in the student intakes.
Also on the radar for the academy are aviation technical courses, including for MRO engineers. Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, said he wanted the group’s pilot school to be one of the largest airline training facilities in the southern hemisphere.
No site for the academy had been decided at press time, but there is great support for the academy with more than 9,000 potential students registering an interest in the school’s coures with women making up 15% of potential applicants.
