FLORENCE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern Air has been honored with the prestigious Diamond Award of Excellence by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Diamond Award is the FAA’s highest honor for maintenance training and overall maintenance excellence.
Southern Air’s maintenance professionals completed over 4,000 hours of specific aircraft and product instruction as well as safety and regulatory training in 2014 to earn the Diamond Award.
“This is an outstanding achievement for Southern Air, particularly considering how much we have accomplished in the past two years,” said David Soaper, Chief Operating Officer of Southern Air Inc. “We set a course to strive for excellence and quality in all that we do and the entire Southern Air team is to be commended for achieving this incredible honor from the FAA.”
The FAA established the Diamond Award program in 1991 to encourage aviation maintenance technicians and their employers to participate in training programs. During 2014, 100 percent of Southern Air’s aircraft and maintenance technicians completed training, qualifying the air cargo company to compete for the Diamond Award. This is Southern Air’s first FAA Diamond Award.
About Southern Air
With its comprehensive, reliable and responsible customer approach, Southern Air serves the world’s largest intercontinental air cargo carriers, integrators and freight forwarders. Southern Air is the first wide-body ACMI operator in the world to operate the fuel-efficient Boeing 777 freighter and currently operates four such aircraft on an around-the-world basis for the leading global express delivery provider DHL. Southern Air also operates five Boeing 737 aircraft for DHL, flying key routes to support DHL’s U.S., Caribbean and Latin American air networks. Southern Air is the premier provider of safe, fuel-efficient, domestic and intercontinental ACMI/CMI services. Southern Air and its experienced team of aviation professionals deliver high quality services to global customers, meeting and exceeding their air cargo needs. For more information, please visit: www.southernair.com.
