Spirit Direct Program<\/a> earlier this year, Spirit will be flying in an Airbus A320neo to ATP’s open house at Fort Myers on April 29. Attendees will be able to tour the aircraft, part of Spirit’s growing fleet, which is planned to gain 24 new planes this year for a projected fleetwide total of 197 by the end of 2022. Spirit plans to accept another 33 planes in 2023 as well. Under the partnership, ATP flight instructors can progress straight to a first officer position with Spirit at 1,500 hours. Spirit recruiters will be hosting pre-scheduled, onsite interviews for eligible ATP flight instructors and information sessions for future and current students.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Fort Myers facility is the second newly constructed\nairline training center ATP has opened in less than a year, with a 25,875\nsquare-foot facility in Arlington, TX starting operations last fall. Both join\nATP’s 70 nationwide locations and were designed to efficiently deliver ATP’s\nAirline Career Pilot Program, which takes students from zero time to flight\ninstructors in just seven months. At Fort Myers, open and inviting common areas\nbring together ample classroom, briefing, and testing spaces. An expansive\nsimulator bay will house brand-new state-of-art Frasca TruFlite simulators with\nimmersive 220\u00c2\u00b0 wrap-around visuals, while a dedicated maintenance hangar\nmaintains a fleet of multi-engine Piper Seminoles and all-glass cockpit Piper\nArchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We love to see the new training center here in\nSouthwest Florida because there are tremendous career opportunities right here\nin The Sunshine State. We serve seven Florida airports stretching from Miami to\nPensacola, and we’re growing fast with more than 50 new planes expected for\ndelivery over the next two years,” said Ryan Rodosta, Senior Director of\nFlight Operations and System Chief Pilot for Spirit Airlines. “We can’t\nwait to welcome the next generation of pilots that will take our Guests across\nour growing route map.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“With a pilot shortage upon us, it is an exciting\nmoment to unveil the Fort Myers training center,” said Michael Arnold,\nDirector of Marketing, ATP Flight School. “The new facility is built on\n35-plus years of experience delivering airline pilot training and presents\nstate-of-art resources backed with the proven methodology that has made ATP the\nleading provider of airline pilots. The result is Florida’s premier airline\ntraining center, where students are on the fastest track to becoming airline\npilots.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Lee County Port Authority would like to welcome\nATP Flight School as a new business partner and tenant on the North Ramp at\nPage Field,” says Ben Siegel, CPA, C.M., Executive Director of the Lee County\nPort Authority. “We hope this new location in Fort Myers will be a great\nsuccess in developing and professionally training new airline pilots.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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