Airbus to train Chinese maintenance technicians
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-31 09:17
China's Civil Aviation University has signed an agreement with Airbus, the
European aircraft maker, on a three-year program to train Chinese maintenance
technicians.
The program will start next year and facilities will include a
computer-equipped training classroom, a plane installation, and a data room to
be completed by 2009, all supported by Airbus.
Airbus will provide training in plane structure, maintenance and repair,
according to the memorandum signed here Monday.
The company will also select at least 30 maintenance trainers and send them
to Europe for advanced training and technical knowledge after a year.
In the next five years, it was estimated that China would need at least 5,000
maintenance engineers for Airbus aircraft, said Pierre Steffen, vice president
of Airbus China in charge of customer service.
“It is the market demand that facilitated this cooperation, forming our
training strategy of related Airbus technologies for Chinese maintenance
engineers," he said.
He said the Civil Aviation University had a prestigious reputation in the
aviation industry. The cooperation would also help Airbus China to recruit
prospective graduates.
China signed a deal last week to buy 150 Airbus 320 planes. At the same time,
Airbus signed agreements to open a final assembly line in China, its first
outside Europe.
Airbus is displaying a scale model of the A380 super-jumbo jet at a major air
show which opened Monday afternoon in Zhuhai, a coastal city in south China's
Guangdong Province.
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