Jet mulls pilot training academy at Brussels

Brussels:
Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal is in talks with Belgian companies for setting up a hotel; running a pilot training academy and starting an MRO facility in India.

Brussels Airport has been under-utilised since 2001. Though it has a capacity to handle nearly 30 million passengers annually, the airport (now run by an Australian company) gets a traffic of just about 17 million.

On the other hand, Indian carriers face a problem of getting slots in choked Indian Metro airports. So in a mutually beneficial move, Belgium laid out the red carpet once Jet decided to make Brussels its European hub. Apart from major job creations, it also hopes to get more Indian tourists now. Goyal wants to extend this partnership to solve other infrastructure woes too.

''The Sabena Flying Academy at Brussels Airport will be used to train pilots. Every year we will select 200 science students/engineering graduates and send them for training here,'' he said at the Brussels Airport earlier this week.

In addition, Jet is also talking to SN Technik of Sabena for setting up an MRO. The airline has tied up with Sabena's successor, Brussels Airlines, for providing connectivity to 54 European cities to Jet passengers flying in from north America or India into Brussels.

22/09/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

Jet is looking to set Brussels as its hub

The Sabena Flying Academy at Brussels Airport will be used to train pilots
Is Sabena becoming the IIT for Pilots?

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Is Sabena becoming the IIT for Pilots?

They couldnt run the airline although it was a favorite .. so be happy their pilot training business is flourishing

cheers
haree

Don't they still have Sabena Tech, the MRO branch still going ?

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Is Sabena becoming the IIT for Pilots?

I think the deal between Jet and Sabena is yet another one of the cadet pilot type things like the ones used by SG or KF in the past.
Besides, I think they might use Sabena's MRO facility for their Mx needs making that a 'major' base.

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''The Sabena Flying Academy at Brussels Airport will be used to train pilots. Every year we will select 200 science students/engineering

graduates and send them for training here,'' he said at the Brussels Airport earlier this week.
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Looks like jets got a cadet pilot program in the works