The Emirates-CAE Flight Training center located alongside the Emirates Aviation College here in Dubai is benefiting from a strategic location, a sound local market and a partnership between local airline and Canadian training specialist that seems to be working well. According to Jeff Roberts, CAE’s group president for innovation and civil training and services, the new facility has been “an unmitigated success” and the relationship with the Emirates Group “continues to evolve and develop, expand and grow.”
One reason why the joint venture has been successful, in his view, is that the philosophy and the culture of both partners was to be “very customer oriented, to allow the partnership and the operations to move and adjust in line with the requirements and expectations of customers.” The majority of those customers come from the Gulf region, but the Dubai center has also attracted business from elsewhere in Asia, as well as Africa, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Europe.
