This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
LOGOS will develop a $100 million purpose-built Qantas pilot training centre in the southern Sydney suburb of St Peters.
The Logos Australia Logistics Venture (LALV), a partnership with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, will developer the 7,222 sqm facility that will include office accommodation and a training centre with eight flight simulators, in partnership with global training provider CAE and Qantas. CAE will take on a 20-year lease.
It will be built on a 7,956 sqm site at 28-30 Burrows that Logos acquired for more than $38 million from Dial-a-Dump founder Ian Malouf. The site is adjacent to the 13.8 hectares of land that LALV acquired last year from Qantas from $802 million.
“Located within a premium industrial precinct on the doorstep of Sydney airport, the St Peters site provides the ideal location for Qantas’ new training centre, and the long-term commitment provided by CAE reflects the unprecedented level of demand for industrial land stocks that we’re currently seeing,” said Logos head of Australia and New Zealand Darren Searle said.
Qantas expects the facility to train 4,500 new and current Qantas and Jetstar pilots and cabin crew each year. Senior Qantas and Jetstar training captains will train pilots CAE will maintain the simulators and manage the day-to-day operations of the centre.
Simulators will include the Airbus A350 and A320 family of aircraft.
Qantas relocated simulators from Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane last year to make way for the NSW government’s Sydney Gateway road project. Sydney-based pilots currently travelling interstate to do their training will resume training in their home state when the new facility opens in early 2024.
“Qantas has trained its pilots and crew in Sydney for more than half a century and we look forward to bringing this critical function back to New South Wales with this custom-built facility,” Qantas group CEO Alan Joyce said.
“Sydney will be the launch city for our non-stop flights to London and New York, and will now be the home of pilot training for the A350s, which will operate these flights from 2025.”
The NSW government has declared Logos’ development proposal as state significant, state Minister for Planning and Minister for Homes Anthony Roberts said.
