{"id":20975,"date":"2022-02-14T20:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20975"},"modified":"2022-02-14T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:11:00","slug":"spirit-airlines-and-atp-flight-school-launch-new-program-for-next-generation-of-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/spirit-airlines-and-atp-flight-school-launch-new-program-for-next-generation-of-pilots\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Spirit\u00ae Airlines and ATP Flight School Launch New Program for Next Generation of Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spirit Airlines has announced its partnership with the nation’s largest flight school, Jacksonville-based ATP Flight School. The new Spirit Direct Program<\/a> will expand the carrier’s pipeline of highly skilled, professional pilots to include ATP’s more than 2,000 qualified students and flight instructors. It also provides graduates with the fastest track to a successful career as a Spirit pilot amid the airline’s continued growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ATP’s prestigious Airline Career Pilot Program and Spirit\nDirect Program will immerse students in a two-year training that develops\nline-ready, Spirit A320 family pilots. Students begin their journey with a\nseven-month training toward their multi-engine commercial pilot and flight\ninstructor certificates along with their instrument rating. As students\nprogress to ATP instructors, they continue to build flight experience working\nto advance to first officer with Spirit Airlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“ATP is well-known for developing top-notch airline\npilots, making them the perfect match as we continue to grow and give our\nGuests more destinations to discover,” said Ryan Rodosta, Senior Director\nof Flight Operations and System Chief Pilot. “Spirit has one of the\nyoungest and most fuel-efficient fleets in the industry, and we fly to\nworld-class destinations across the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. Our\nfleet is growing fast and creating tremendous career-progression\nopportunities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In just seven months, graduates of ATP’s Airline\nCareer Pilot Program earn their commercial pilot and flight instructor\ncertificates, then through the Spirit Direct Program can advance straight to\nSpirit as Airbus first officers after 1,500 hours of flight time,” said\nMichael Arnold, Director of Marketing, ATP Flight School. “We are\nincredibly proud to partner with Spirit in bringing ATP graduates the fastest\ntrack to become airline pilots and the opportunity to quickly establish a\nrewarding career.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about the application process, visit atpflightschool.com\/spirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spirit Airlines has announced its partnership with the nation’s largest flight school, Jacksonville-based ATP Flight School. The new Spirit Direct Program will expand the carrier’s pipeline of highly skilled, professional pilots to include ATP’s more than 2,000 qualified students and flight instructors. It also provides graduates with the fastest track to a successful career as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20979,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions\/20979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}