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Metropolitan State University of Denver gained approval from the FAA to allow eligible students the ability to pursue their restricted airline transport pilot (R-ATP) certificate at 1,000 flight hours—which is 500 hours fewer than the requirement for students not attending an FAA-certified ATP training program. .  This also makes MSU Denver the only four-year, FAA-approved […]

ATP Flight School opened its new 25,875-square-foot airline pilot training center on Friday. The new facility is located at Arlington Municipal Airport (KGKY), 20 minutes from Dallas, Texas. It grows ATP’s network of flight training locations to 70. The Arlington location is now the largest flight training facility in Texas, and it will help support […]

As US airlines continue their search for enough cockpit crewmembers to fill both current and future demand, ATP Flight School and Sun Country Airlines just announced a pilot hiring partnership to create a direct pathway for ATP graduates to join the Minneapolis-based airline as Boeing 737 first officers. In a news release, ATP said, “Recommended […]

Just 18 short months ago, pilots chasing an airline job had a nearly bottomless well of opportunities to draw from. Industry experts compared the scarcity of experienced cockpit crewmembers to the 1960s—when the major airlines were so needy, they actually subsidized pilot training. As 2019 drew to a close, it was fairly common for regional […]

ATP Flight School has opened a new advanced pilot training center at the Arlington Municipal Airport (KGKY) in Arlington, Texas, adding to their 30-year history of training pilots in the Dallas area. The new 13,875 square-foot facility has been designed to address the need for airline pilots in the future as the industry rebounds from […]

Frontier Airlines and ATP Flight School said in a recent news release that they’ve formed the Frontier Direct Program, targeting ATP graduates and instructors for employment as first officers following graduation. The new partnership offers ATP graduates an accelerated path to a career with Frontier. The airline gains access to a high-quality pool of qualified pilot applicants. […]

Epic Aircraft and ATP have partnered to utilize ATP’s Flightdocs and Aviation Hub services for documentation and tracking across Epic’s E1000 GX fleet. ATP is a provider of aviation software and information services based in San Francisco, California, while Epic—out of Bend, Oregon—certified the E1000 turboprop in November 2019, securing Flying’s 2020 Innovation Award. Epic […]

Specially designed for airline pilot development, ATP Flight School’s advanced 13,875-square-foot flight training center, currently under construction at the Arlington, Texas Municipal Airport (KGKY) represents, according to a company news release, a substantial investment in Dallas-Fort Worth-area students and to meeting future demand for qualified airline pilots. Once completed, the new facility will increase ATP’s […]