CAE Athens - AEGEAN CAE Flight Training Centre

The AEGEAN CAE Flight Training Centre, the first advanced flight training centre in Greece, will be part of AEGEAN’s new 85,000 m² technical base at Athens International Airport. This state-of-the-art facility is a result of a joint venture between the global leader in civil aviation training, CAE and Greece’s largest airline, AEGEAN. 

At full capacity, the centre will be annually training up to 3,500 pilots (42,000 pilot training hours) and many more cabin crew. Initially, the training centre will operate four full-flight simulators, including two Airbus A320neo, one Boeing 737NG, and one ATR 72-600, with space for three additional simulators.

The Flight Training Centre will be powered by solar energy from AEGEAN’s new “green” hangar, embedded with 35,000 m² of solar panels, generating 3 MW or 4.4 GWh of electricity annually. This initiative is part of AEGEAN’s €140 million investment to bolster the local aviation industry and position Greece as an aviation hub in Southeastern Europe.