The European manufacturer announced today that, in partnership with Chilean airline SKY, it has opened its newest training centre in Santiago, Chile, becoming the fourth in Latin America.
Airbus Chile Training Centre (ACTC, an acronym for Airbus Chile Training Centre) is located within the Airbus Chile facilities at the Tobalaba aerodrome in Santiago.
According to our Brazilian media partner Aeroin, the 1,700-square-meter facility provides training for Airbus aircraft operators in Chile and has the capacity for a full set of A320 pilot training equipment, with a capacity of 1,800 students per year.
«With the inauguration of the Airbus Training Centre, Chile consolidates its relevant position in the Latin American aeronautical market. Having state-of-the-art simulators for the training of 1,800 pilots per year will allow us to transform our country into a centre that generates highly qualified personnel to address the progressive increase in the demand for pilots that is projected for Latin America in the coming years,» said Gloria Hutt, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications.
SKY, an all-Airbus fleet low-cost airline based in Chile and Peru, selected the company as its flight training provider in 2019, with the objective of providing the best safety conditions for its passengers.
The centre was inaugurated in the presence of Chile’s Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, as well as SKY CEO Holger Paulmann and Arturo Barreira, President of Airbus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
With air traffic in Latin America progressively increasing, Airbus expects more than 5,500 pilots to be trained in the region over the next few years, so the new training center will support current and future airline growth.
ACTC is part of the Airbus flight training network, with 20 centers around the world. This extensive and growing global network enables the aerospace company to offer a complete flight training package, allowing customers to benefit from its know-how closer to their home base.
Airbus has sold more than 1,100 aircraft and has a worldwide backlog of around 430 orders, in addition to more than 685 aircraft in service throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, representing nearly 60% of the in-service fleet market share in the region. Since 1994, the company has received approximately 70% of the region’s net orders.
