After a year best described as challenging, flight-training provider FlightSafety International has seen an uptick in business since January and is adding another training site to its worldwide network, as well as several new training platforms at some of its locations. “We are seeing a little bit of life here in the first quarter,” said Eric Hinson, the company’s executive vice president. “There’s been some resurgence in terms of overall training activity, but of course we’re very focused on what’s going on in the rest of the world.”
Like most in the business aviation industry, the company has noted the changing patterns in the business aviation industry. “As with our OEM partners, the higher growth rates right now are the other parts of the world: Asia, the Middle East and to some extent South America,” he said. “Those are the areas where even though the underlying level of activity is much smaller than it is in Europe and North America, it is growing much more rapidly.”
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