“We’re going after FlightSafety,” Nick Leontidis, CAE’s executive vice president of civil aviation training and equipment, told AIN. “They may have created the business aviation simulation market, but we believe we have a better product.” He said current customer expectations are “far behind what the commercial airline market has enjoyed for many years in terms of quality of service.”
Montreal-based CAE may be new to business aviation, but the company has a long history in flight simulation and training in the commercial and military markets. Founded in 1947 with 18 employees, CAE now has a presence in 13 countries, employs 6,000 people and generates annual revenues in excess of $650 million. CAE is the world’s leading supplier of civil flight simulators and visual systems, having sold more than 500 simulators to some 100 airlines, aircraft manufacturers and civil and military training centers.
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