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Bombardier plans to open pilot training facility in region
Bombardier is making plans to open a pilot training facility for its business aircraft family here in the Middle East.

Bombardier is making plans to open a pilot training facility for its business aircraft family here in the Middle East. Dubai has been earmarked as the likely venue for the new center and, according to Khader Mattar, the Canadian airframer’s vice president for Middle East and Africa, it could be open before the end of next year.

“Over the past three or four years we have seen a really big increase in the number of our aircraft operating in this region with the growth coming from both old and new customers,” Mattar told MEBA Convention News. He said the United Arab Emirates is a hotspot for fleet growth and is now second in the region to Saudi Arabia in terms of business aircraft numbers. Significant numbers of new orders for Bombardier aircraft have also come from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

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