Wizz Air opens new training centre

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Wizz Air, which boasts three bases across the former Yugoslavia and employs over a hundred pilots and cabin crew from Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, has opened a new training centre in Budapest today. The new facility features two Full Flight Simulators, one Fixed Base Simulator, as well as a new Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer and a Real Fire Fighting Trainer device. The centre will allow Wizz to increase its training capacity to up to 100 crew members daily, growing to more than 250 in the future. Located five minutes from Budapest Airport, the facility is currently the largest aviation related training centre in the region and one of the most advanced in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to the three simulators and the cabin trainer, the 3.800 square meter facility includes fourteen training rooms, an office area, a large lobby and a common break room. It can be expanded with additional simulators or more training rooms. By the end of the year, the low cost airline will have an international team of over 1.000 pilots and 2.000 cabin crew to be trained on a recurring basis. These numbers are expected to triple in ten years.