Delta offers air transport pilot training options

After receiving an FAA go-ahead, the air carrier posted on its website July 22 that it became “the first flight training entity at a major airline in the U.S.” to offer the airline transport pilot program.

Changes to the airline transport pilot program in 2014 “inspired the Delta Aircrew Training Center in Atlanta to create a new Airline Transport Pilot Certification Training Program” to meet a growing need, the website explained.

“While this is not a class to become a new hire pilot at Delta,” wrote Jon Tovani, the carrier’s pilot training director, “it can be used by pilots looking to eventually be hired by any airline.”