JetBlue Airways reported that its first-quarter net income soared on improving revenue from higher fares and increased passenger traffic that offset rapidly rising fuel costs.
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Month: April 2012
The Challenges of Advanced Jet Training
I met today with Recruiters and Operations Executives from both SkyWest and GoJet today at our corporate headquarters at ATP. We had met to discuss ATP’s Regional Jet Standards Certification Program or the “RJ Program” as pilots are fond of calling it, presumably for the sake of brevity.
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World Aviation Training Symposium 2012
Last week I attended the W.A.T.S. 2012 conference in Orlando, representing ATP. The annual gathering played host to executives and pilots representing airlines from around the world. They had all come to Orlando to discuss the current state of the ever changing global airline industry.
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Pilots and Airline Recruiters Meet at FltOps.com Job Fair
Over 500 airline pilots, as well as those aspiring to be one, met face to face with Airline Recruiters eager to hire them to fly for their respective airlines in Las Vegas this past Friday. FltOps founder Louis Smith and his staff headed by FltOps VP Judy Tarver kept the large crowd moving from one airline to the next in a calm organized fashion as always.
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SkyWest Airlines Reports Boost in Combined Passenger Traffic
SkyWest, Inc.,reported a 4.8 percent increase in passenger traffic for March, while total number of available seat aboard SkyWest aircraft also increased 1.1 percent compared to March 2011. The percentage of those available seats that were filled with passengers was 80.5 percent compared to 77.6 percent, up 2.9 percentage points compared to March 2011.
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Boeing and Airbus Report Increases in Aircraft Deliveries
Boeing and Airbus have been reporting for the last several years that the airline industry will continue to grow by 5% over the next twenty years, and have reported that industry is expanding much faster than the group of new qualified commercial pilots that are available. This is creating a growing shortage of airline pilots required to fly those aircraft. Now, both Airbus and Boeing reported first-quarter deliveries were up over the year-ago quarter, increasing the demand for new commercial pilots to be trained.
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Getting the Right Training To Succeed
ATP has earned an excellent reputation among aspiring commercial pilots who have attended training programs with them for helping those pilots get the flying jobs they have wanted to get. ATP’s Regional Jet Program is the final step in the programs designed to help pilots succeed.
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