Training and Workforce
Antares Aviation Hub Inks Air University Collaboration
Organizations plan to develop skilled aviation talent
University of the Air, Brazil
Officials from University of the Air and Antares Aviation Hub sign a memorandum of understanding that will help develop skilled aviation personnel in Brazil. At the microphone is University of the Air founder Francisco Lyra. (Photo: Antonio Carlos Carriero/AIN)

Antares Aviation Hub, located at an airport in Brazil’s Central West region, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Escola Superior do Ar (University of the Air) that will help develop aviation talent. The agreement, signed on Tuesday at the LABACE 2023 show in São Paulo, will make Antares “the “first distance learning pole of the Central West,” according to Antares director Romeu da Silva Neiva Junior and Francisco Lyra, CEO of C Fly Aviation and one of the founders of Escola Superior do Ar.

Lyra's track record includes developing the São Paulo-area business aviation airport Caterina Executive. His Lyra goal for the new project is to train people to help meet the projected growth of aviation. “Human resource departments are overwhelmed with people who arrive needing extensive additional training before they can start working,” he said.