Training Joint Stock Company have made a deal to train 60 pilots in
Vietnam during the 2010-2012 period.
Under the contract, signed in Ho Chi Minh City on October 14, every
72-week training course will be held in Vietnam and France, each
with 20 trainees. The training courses will be completed by the end of
2012.
Vietnam Airlines estimates it will need at
least 636 pilots by 2010, 60 percent of them Vietnamese. To raise the
rate of Vietnamese pilots to 75 percent by 2015, the carrier plans to
recruit at least 100 extra pilots a year to raise the number of pilots
by 10 percent during 2011-2020.
The Chairman of
Vietnam Airlines Corp Nguyen Sy Hung said that the contract with Bay
Viet, the first pilot training centre in Vietnam to have an Air
Transport Pilots Licence (ATPL), will help the airline to take the
initiative and train its own pilots, cutting costs and raising
efficiency.
The deal also proves the airline’s
commitment to its domestic partners to implement its strategy on
personnel development to ensure sustainable growth and fulfill its plans
to develop the country’s aviation industry.
Bay
Viet’s General Director Nguyen Nam Lien, said the company will start
four other pilots courses for other airlines in Vietnam and around
the region in 2010 and 2011.
In the first phase,
Bay Viet will work with Vietnam ’s Aviation Academy and provide
flight training at Cam Ranh Airport in Nha Trang.
These are the first important steps in the setting up of a pilots
training centre to ensure the aviation industry’s development in the
future./.
