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Skyplan Gives Regional Flight Dispatch Training Shot in the Arm
Its courses will enable professionals from as far afield as the CIS, India and Africa to obtain training and refresher courses.
Muhammad Sami, president and CEO of SkyPlan Services
Muhammad Sami, president and CEO of SkyPlan Services, is overseeing the opening of SkyPlan’s Skyline Innovation Academy in Dubai. (Photo: David McIntosh)

UAE-based flight planning and dispatch concern Skyplan Services is opening a new flight dispatchers’ training school in Dubai this month. “We are launching Skyline Innovation Academy at Dubai Airport Free Zone [DAFZA],” Muhammad Sami, president and CEO of Skyplan Services, told AIN. “We just received our flight dispatch training organization approval from the General Authority for Civil Aviation [GCAA].”

Costs for its three-day recurrent flight dispatcher course include tuition and competency checks, with the inaugural course to start on December 12. The long-term goal of the establishment is twofold: train new entrants for a flight dispatch career and also maintain the skills of existing professionals, who are required to undergo retesting every 12 months and renew their license every two years.

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