So You Love Aviation, But Don't Want to Be A Pilot?

If you have a passion for aviation, consider a career as an Airline Dispatcher, one of the most exciting and best-paying jobs in the airline industry. Commercial aviation is expanding worldwide, and now is an excellent time for you to begin this exciting  career. Dispatcher positions are available with airlines throughout the world. Phoenix East also has agreements with airlines for immediate job placement for qualified graduates.

Phoenix East Aviation provides all your training. Your course is FAA-approved, six-weeks long with 200 hours of classroom training. You'll train at our excellent flight training academy in Daytona Beach, Florida, in a classroom setting, from experienced instructors.

After graduation from Phoenix East and FAA certification, you will be ready to work in an airline's Operations Control Center, making decisions and sharing responsibility with an airline captain regarding daily flights. You will be the "captain on the ground."  Contact one of our Admissions Officers for more details. Call 1-386-258-0703 (worldwide) or 1-800-868-4359 (US) between 8am - 5pm EST.

More Airlines Worldwide that are Growing - Will They Hire You to be Their Newest Pilot?

We all want to work for successful enterprises. Here's some news on just a few airlines that recently have announced excellent performance:

Canadian airline WestJet marks the fifth consecutive record month. The airline's May capacity increased 15% over May of last year.

A growth rate of over 20%  continues in Finnair's Europe-Asia traffic.  For the whole year, Asian traffic is expected to grow by 30%.  And thanks to the 76-100 seat Embraer aircraft, capacity in domestic traffic has also improved. The passenger load factor overall was higher than in 2006 (year to date comparison through May).

Delta Airlines achieved record May load factors. System traffic increased 5.9% from May 2006.

Turning "Green:" The Airline Industry Become More Environmentally-Conscious

At the Paris Air Show this week, in the effort to better publicize its efforts to be part of an environmentally-conscious industry, Airbus showed an image of dolphins, rain forests, and fishing boats on a misty pond. The company's CEO said, at a press conference, that Airbus is "saving the planet, one A380 at a time." Advanced fuel-saving aerodynamic design, including wingtip fences and an all new lighter cabin help reduce fuel burn, making the A320 amily the most environmentally friendly single aisle aircraft in operation.

All across Le Bourget Airport at the industry's largest trade show, airline and aerospace comapnies are showing that when it comes to saving the environment, they understand and are acting on it. They are talking about hard-earned environmental advanced and new initiatives.

Airlines and aircraft manufacturers can demonstrate that they have dramatically inproved their environmental performance. Each generation of new aircraft and engines has polluted significantly less than its predecessors. Boeing says that since the jet age began, the industry has reduced engine noise by an average of 30 decibels and fuel consumption by over 70%.

The companies are sincere in their efforts. Both Boeing and Airbus are now designing planes to cut fuel consumption even mroe, estimated to be as much as 20%. Good examples are the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350. Air France-KLM also noted that their new Boeing aircraft cuts carbon-dioxide emissions by 20%. And Pratt & Whittney, which builds engines for jet aircraft, boasted that the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide the fuel-efficient engine could save would be the equivalent of what would be consumed by a "mature forest the size of Belgium."

The Facts about Low-fare Airlines Trends

Don't listen to anyone that discourages you from flying for the airlines. It's not only a very, very exciting industry -- and career -- it's also growing very steadily and very rapidly.  This means it's a great place to be for someone just starting out on a new career.

Listen to what's going on in just one segment of the industry -- the low-fare airlines: An analysis of flight schedules from 1,000 network and low-fare airlines worldwide recently showed that there are an additional 46,000 flights and 7.5 million seats available just this year on low-fare carriers. How many more, new pilots do you think they need for those 46,000 more flights?

This represents a 17% year-on-year growth in frequency and a 19% increase in capacity over last year.

Looking at a worldwide seven-year trend, there are 46.5 million more seats available now and 318,000 more flights than in 2001. This represents massive increases from 2001, when there was 130,000 flights and 17.2 million seats available.

And here's another astonishing statistic: Low-fare airlines accounted for only 6% of all flights worldwide.

Europe and the Asia-Pacific had exceptional growth. The number of low-fare airline flights within Europe has increased from 13,891 in 2001 to a staggering 89,574 in 2007. The eastern European market showed a strong growth just from last year -- growth was 34% February 2006-February 2007. In the Asia-Pacific region, flights on low-fare airlines have increased to 50,851 from 2,840 in 2001.   

What are you waiting for? Start your flight training now.

India Student Pilots

So you are an Indian citizen and you want to learn to fly?  The need for pilots is great in India -- and will be for a number of years to come. So now's the time to start planning your career as a commercial pilot.

You may also know that the opportunities to learn to fly and get a Commercial Pilot's License in India are limited -- and take many years to complete. It's not that way in the U.S. You can learn to fly quickly, get your licenses and ratings quickly, satisfy Indian government flying requirements ... everything, all in the U.S. And at a cost significantly less than in Europe.

...and we do it all in the beautiful beach community of Daytona Beach, Florida.  The flying weather is excellent: we typically can fly 360 days a year. Call Phoenix East at 001-386-258-0703 for more information.

If you have never flown and want to learn a little more before you start your search for a flight school, check out www.pea.com. See "India Pilot Training Program" on the web site and learn how Phoenix East can train you specifically to India DGCA requirements.

What's It Like to Fly for a Major Airline?

Each major airline throughout the world is of course somewhat different. But you may not realize exactly what it means to be a "big" airline -- and fly for one of them.  Here's what you can expect, in terms of where you might fly, if, for example, you were hired by Delta Airlines. 

Delta serves 332 destinations in 57 countries. They introduced 60 new international routes just last year and have added more international capacity than other US airlines combined. Delta has more flights across the Atlantic, with flights to 36 trans-Atlantic destinations. To Latin American and the Caribbean, Delta offers nearly 700 weekly flights to 63 destinations. Delta boarded 9.1 million passengers just during May 2007 alone. Ready to start flight school now and become part of such an exciting industry?