Conducting the 111th online VIP flight attendant training course is another milestone in our long and successful history of private jet cabin crew training courses. It all started in 2020, when COVID-19 forced European governments to close their borders. I had a VIP flight attendant training scheduled to take place on the weekend, and on Monday, 5 days before, the Swiss government decided to close the Swiss borders. At this time I had cabin crew from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and several European countries who wanted to participate in Geneva. The question then was, what to do, as nobody at this time knew for how long the lockdown would take place.
I was very fast, and with the help of 10 private jet cabin crew members who work for business aviation companies in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern and Western Europe, I put together a 3-4 day online VIP flight attendant training. All of these 10 private jet cabin crew participated in my training courses and I therefore knew them well. After two months of hard work the online training was ready, and in the beginning I welcomed many cabin crew members from the United Arab Emirates, from Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East, as commercial aviation companies based in these countries made thousands of flight attendants redundant. Within the last 6 years, our online VIP flight attendant training has continuously adapted to the latest changes in the industry, as being up-to-date is one of our priorities.
Since then we have welcomed private jet operators for whom we have conducted training courses, as well as many commercial flight attendants who wish to transition and to work as private jet cabin crew, as well as many experienced VIP flight attendants. Our experiences are very positive, and lately we also conduct many one-to-one online training courses. Overall I can say that it has been a fantastic decision to start offering online training courses and as so often, Training Solutions has been the first European company to do so. The privilege is often that you really get to know training participants very well, and we have had many success stories amongst our participants.