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CAE wins contracts for four full-flight simulators

17-Jul-2008
CAE wins contracts for four full-flight simulators
At the Farnborough Air Show, CAE announced it had been awarded contracts to design and manufacture four full-flight simulators (FFSs) and associated training devices. The contracts are with Etihad Airways, British Airways, Bombardier and Embraer. CAE has now announced a total of 14 FFS sales in fiscal year 2009, which began 01-Apr.

 

Marc Parent, CAE’s Group President, Simulation Products and Military Training & Services said, “CAE is uniquely positioned to help enhance the safety and efficiency of aviation with our simulation-based product and service offering.  Our comprehensive portfolio of integrated training solutions provides a wide range of choices to operators to develop training programs that best suit them. This level of flexibility is particularly valuable in the current environment as airlines are actively seeking additional productivity gains to help alleviate the impact of high fuel costs.”

Etihad Airways

During a ceremony at the Farnborough Air Show, Etihad Airways Executive Vice President Finance, James Rigney, and CAE’s Marc Parent signed the contract for CAE to provide a Boeing 777-300ER (extended range) FFS and a CAE SimfinityTM Boeing 777 Integrated Procedures Trainer to Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. The simulator will be delivered in 2009 to Etihad’s training centre in Abu Dhabi.

British Airways

CAE has won a contract to design and manufacture a CAE 7000 Series Airbus A320 FFS for British Airways. The simulator will be delivered to British Airways training centre at Heathrow Airport in the spring of 2009. This is the seventh full-flight simulator British Airways has ordered from CAE, and the first since 2000.

 
 

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 17-Jul-08

 

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