Kuwait’s National Aviation Services (NAS), the provider of airport ground handling services to airlines at the Kuwait International Airport has announced the launch of the NAS Aviation Academy.
This comes shortly after NAS successfully obtained its Certification as an IATA Authorised Training Center. The NAS Aviation Academy will provide training programmes in Travel & Tourism, Cargo and Dangerous Goods, Airport & Civil Aviation procedures, Passenger Services and Ground Handling Operations in addition to various accredited certifications and training courses.
Mohamed Omar Al-Habash, training manager at NAS noted that IATA certified courses have gained worldwide recognition in the aviation industry and holders of a certificate accredited by IATA have a huge scope in the industry.
“With our new authorised training centre, we are equipped not only to certify people with travel and tourism certificates but also ground handling operations, cargo and other aviation related activities.
“Candidates seeking to get qualified in these fields will no longer need to travel outside the country to obtain certifications. Our ability to provide IATA certified courses to the Kuwaiti market has put us in the big league of training institutes and we will continue to enhance our course materials and methods of training to be more valuableto travel professionals in the country.”