Lufthansa Technik Philippines (LTP) received recently a Diamond Award and Certificate of Excellence from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The award is the highest recognition given by the FAA for employers who were able to train more than 25 percent of their technical workforce in one calendar year. Only three non-US organizations to date have qualified as FAA Diamond awardees. LTP is a Joint Venture between Lufthansa Technik (51 percent) and MacroAsia Corporation (49 Percent).

Besides the Award for the company as a whole, a total of 460 LTP technical personnel individually received the FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Award (AMT) for completing significant hours of aviation and regulatory training courses in 2002. “The FAA is well aware of the responsibility of the employer to bear the short-term productivity loss and costs associated with training, which is why it recognized those that, like LTP, took a proactive role in training their technical workforce,” said LTP president and CEO Thomas Gockel.

The AMT Award is an incentive for aviation technicians to aggressively enroll in initial and recurrent training courses. Recognition depends on the number of hours of FAA policy and regulations training attended - as well as the number of aviation training courses satisfactorily completed - within a given calendar year.