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Alpha Aviation Group to invest aggressively in Philippine aviation industry

<p>&lpar;Manila&comma; Philippines&comma; December 9&comma; 2011&rpar; – Global aviation training services provider Alpha Aviation Group Philippines &lpar;AAG Ph&rpar; will aggressively expand its operations in the Philippines&comma; announced Kunal Sharma&comma; Chief Operating Officer of the multinational flight school based in Clark Freeport Zone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sharma said the company&comma; which currently operates and maintains an A320 Simulator at its Philippine-based four-bay simulator facility&comma; is banking on the projected sustained growth of the local commercial aviation industry&period;&nbsp&semi; The sector is currently driven by stiff competition among an expanding field of budget airlines&comma; and an equally bullish regional market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m pleased to announce that we have invested in the state-of-the-art Airbus A320 Level D Full Flight Simulator&comma;” Sharma said today&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is a multimillion US-dollar investment that demonstrates our commitment to the Philippines&comma; Philippine aviation&comma; and training Filipinos for high-paying&comma; professionally fulfilling jobs&comma;” Sharma said&period; The new flight simulator will provide AAG Ph the capability to deliver 6&comma;000 hours of training annually&comma; roughly enough to prepare 300 new pilots for certification&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Launched in 2006&comma; AAG Ph is currently the world’s largest provider of Multi-crew Pilot License &lpar;MPL&rpar; pilots&period; AAG Ph is one of three academies under the Alpha Aviation Group &lpar;AAG&rpar;&comma; a Singapore-based provider of specialist training solutions to the international commercial aviation community&period; AAG Ph is also an Approved Training Organization &lpar;ATO&rpar; and a certified Type Rating Training Organization &lpar;TRTO&rpar; for the Airbus A320&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;AAG Ph graduates have established successful careers in the aviation industry&period; The training we provide is based on international standards&comma; which prepares cadets to work anywhere in the globe&comma;” said Andy McKechnie&comma; Chief Training &nbsp&semi;Officer of AAG &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AAG Ph provides highly disciplined operating efficiencies to ensure &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;on-time and on-schedule” delivery of training services both to pilots and airlines&comma; according to Andrew McIntosh&comma; AAG Director of Operations&period; &nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;AAG Ph has been in the Philippines for just five years&period; During that period&comma; we have dramatically expanded the courses that we offer as well as our training fleet and facilities&comma;” McIntosh said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sharma said Maybank is providing the financing for the acquisition of the state-of-the-art simulator&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Maybank believes in our vision for the Philippines as an emerging center of Asian aviation&comma; especially in the training of the region’s pilots&comma;” Sharma explained&period; &nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The secrets to our success in the Philippines are the abundance of local talent and the competence&comma; ambition and growth of players in the industry&period; Those are the principal reasons for our decision to expand here&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As an independent training services provider&comma; AAG Ph counts most airline companies in the Philippines among its clients&period; About 80 percent of the training it provides is for Filipinos employed by local airlines Airphil Express&comma; Cebu Pacific&comma; Zest Air and SEAir&period; International clients include Air Arabia and Jet Airways&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>About Alpha Aviation Group &lpar;AAG&rpar;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Alpha Aviation Group &lpar;AAG&rpar; Philippines is one of the three academies of Alpha Aviation Group&comma; a global group of companies providing specialist training solutions to the international commercial aviation community&period; With a focus on innovation&comma; AAG is the world leader in Multi-crew Pilot’s License &lpar;MPL&rpar; training&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An Approved Training Organization &lpar;ATO&rpar; and a certified Type Rating Training Organization &lpar;TRTO&rpar; for the Airbus A320&comma; AAG Philippines is the leading training academy in the Philippines capable of providing a comprehensive suite of airline-standard training programmes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

J Darell Sapin

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