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FEATURE AVIATION TRAINING

We are competing for talent with alluring management school INSEAD, aimed at
providing aviation professionals with a
high-tech software and mobile companies broad, cross-functional executive training
and start-ups to prepare them for leadership positions.
Aviation planners must continue to
– Bob Bellitto, Global Sales Director, Boeing Flight Services learn from our experiences and adjust
strategies to respond to new technologies
and demands of the industry. The industry
people. “The key is in rallying the industry aviation specialisms. Opportunities at the needs to take a long-term approach in
to work on this long-term strategy with us, nation’s tertiary education establishments the development of human capital, keenly
even as the benefits may only be realised are also varied, covering areas such as aware of the critical role that manpower
in the long-term,” it says in a report. civil aviation management, aerospace plays as it strives to grow a safe and
Indeed, it seems Singapore has engineering, aerospace manufacturing vibrant civil aviation industry.
all the bricks available – it just needs and more. This offers students more “As an industry, we have to get the
to build with them. The country has chances to gain valuable grounding in next generation excited about working
developed a robust education and training targeted segments of the aviation industry in the field of aviation,” says Boeing’s
infrastructure to support the growth – not just becoming a pilot. Bellitto. “We are competing for talent
of the aviation industry. So in spite of Education and training establishments with alluring high-tech software and
the lack of aviation training capacity like Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University mobile companies and start-ups. We’re
globally, this is not the case in Singapore; and Cranfield University have established working hard to showcase our industry as
Seletar Aerospace Park in particular has programmes with Singapore’s Aviation a truly global, technological, multifaceted
enormous capacity for expansion, and has Academy (SAA). In addition, SAA has environment where individuals from all
already attracted many big global names launched a new advanced management backgrounds and disciplines can make a
offering training across a broad section of programme in civil aviation with significant impact.”
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