A new partnership at Eastern Kentucky University lets aviation students train, then go to work for Allegiant Air.

It's a program where the sky's the limit.

It's an opportunity for students to go directly from our program to the Air to Allegiant.

And without cutting out all the extra work in between.

And we're also getting that mentorship directly from future employers.

I was talking with several of the members of the Allegiant team that have come over today, and they said, basically they're going to be giving us a one on one partnership with the students and those that are applying, teaching us exactly what they want.

We do a lot of mentoring.

There's a lot of professional development.

There's things that you would normally get in a regional or learn the hard way that you won't get anywhere else.

So what we do is we tell you how to get the job, how to keep the job, how to prepare a resume and things like that.

But through that mentorship in constant touch points, we are we've decided that we can take this pilot straight out of school with 1000 hours and put him into an Airbus or a Boeing right straight to a major airline.

You can skip the regionals if.

You go to school at Eastern Clark University, that you can you can leave here with 1000 hours and go straight into the workforce in a way that it takes every other program in America, 1500 hours of flight time.

For those of you who are flying, those extra 500 hours are significant, are they not?

It is a game changer for Eastern Kentucky University.

We've seen significant enrollment growth at the institution.

We've seen significant growth in flight hours.

We've seen a significant growth in this program.

And I could not be more proud of the individuals who are part of this program.

Just for those who may not know program majors in this department include professional flight, aerospace management, aerospace technology, and really a new frontier we're really excited about in unmanned aircraft systems and really excited about what's next and the unmanned aircraft space.

I will tell you, we've had great success with this.

We've had 40 people go through so far, no problems.

Just Suzanne, Vegas at the headquarters.

They were very complimentary of the program and the students that go through.

So the quality is there and we're pretty excited about it.

We have a number of our pilots are EKU graduates.

Right.

And I'm hopefully I'm looking at a bunch more.

They'll be joining us.

I'm perce I person was born in south America and then came and lived in the US all that happened because of aviation, you know, for almost a century, if not more aviation has been that there to connect the dots in ways that trains and ships and walking and cars couldn't do.

And so the future of it is just expanding that.

And we're connecting all over the globe through this wonderful gift that aviation has given us.

IQ offered its first aviation course in 1983.

The program boasts a 100% hiring rate for its graduates.

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