Pan Am flight school opens in Bangkok
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The new Pan Am International Flight Training Center has celebrated its grand opening in Bangkok.
The result of a joint venture between All Nippon Airways (ANA), Nok Air, and Thailand’s Assumption University, the new flight training centre is located on Assumption’s Suvarnabhumi Campus, near Bangkok’s main international airport.
It will initially house classrooms and conference rooms, plus an Airbus A320 full-flight simulator. A Boeing 737 simulator will be added in the first quarter of 2015, followed by two additional full-motion simulators in 2016.
The centre was opened by Gary Anderson, CEO of the new Pan Am training centre.
“Pan Am’s commitment to this region is demonstrated in the opening of this training centre,” said Anderson. “We believe it to be a perfect location for us and we couldn’t be more pleased with the partnerships and interest this is generating.”
ANA bought the US-based Pan Am International Flight Academy in 2013, saying it wanted to expand its pilot training activities to the Asia Pacific region. In addition to the new Bangkok training centre, Pan Am has training centres in Tokyo, the US and Europe.
According to the most recent forecast from Boeing, airlines in Southeast Asia will need 55,000 pilots in the next 20 years.
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