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Michael Amalfitano, Embraer
Credit: Embraer
Speaking about harmonizing international regulations: “Certification authorities have always been partners by engaging and providing guidance early in our developments. Through the pandemic period, we started seeing the use of remote collaborative technologies to allow virtual testing and inspections. We believe that this will likely continue helping to reduce costs and speeding up the entire approval process,” said Michael Amalfitano, president and CEO, Embraer.
Markus Bucher, Pilatus
Credit: Pilatus
On the topic of workforce and diversity: “At Pilatus, we train 13 different skills as apprentices in the organization, roughly 150 people. Everybody should do this to actually feed young talents into our industry. … I think we have to push more in that direction and offer interesting careers and interesting technology in an industry that is a global,” said Markus Bucher, CEO, Pilatus.
First stop: the temperature check station. Every person has his or her temperature taken before being able to enter the convention center. Then American Airlines COO David Seymour’s cutout went to registration to pick up his badge. Aviation Week exempted him from the mandatory mask rule because this version of David is cardboard. Cutout David made his big public debut as a surprise participant in the first C-Suite session at the MRO Americas Conference, as Aviation Week Executive Editor Lee Ann Shay interviewed the real, but virtual, American Airlines COO David Seymour. After the conference session, Aviation Week President Greg Hamilton welcomed cardboard David Seymour to the exhibition.