CAE executives have rushed to Farnborough from Barcelona, Spain, where the company last week inaugurated a new center for commercial aircraft pilots and cabin crew near the main operating base of Vueling Airlines, the new facility’s anchor customer. The Canada-based group also recently expanded its training network by opening a new facility in South Korea and acquiring Oxford Aviation Academy in the UK.
The new Spanish facility, which has annual capacity to train600-pluspilotsand 1,000 cabin crew every year, features an Airbus A320 full-flight simulator (FFS), is expandable to four simulator bays, and offers training to other A320 operators. CAE is recruiting cabin crew candidates for Vueling Airlines and will offer 20-plus training courses annually, each catering for about 30 students. Barcelona is CAE’s third training location in Spain after a Madrid facility, which has been operating since 2002, and a Boeing 737NG unit at Palma, Mallorca.
