CAE has announced a series of training contracts valued at more than C$100m with five airlines.
They include a cadet training programme extension to create additional pilots for China’s Shenzhen Airlines; the extension of a long-term exclusive agreement for pilot training for Spring Airlines in Japan; an exclusive training agreement for pilot training with an undisclosed customer in Europe; training equipment, including the sale of three A350 full-flight simulators (FFS) and one Boeing 787 FFS. There are also contracts for an A350 full-flight simulator and one A350 Airbus Pilot Transition (ATP) Trainer to the Airbus Asian Training Centre
Two A350 and one Boeing 787 full-flight simulators, as well as one A350 flight training device to undisclosed customers in North America.
“We are honoured to support the growth of our long-standing customers around the world,” said Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, Civil Aviation Training Solutions. “We are privileged to extend our customer relationships with these agreements which allow us to maintain and further develop CAE’s position as the worldwide training partner of choice.”
The four full-flight simulator (FFSs) sales bring the total number of FFS sales announced to date in fiscal 2016 to 30.
