Welcome to Global Flyers Corp., a company dedicated to providing value-added human resource solutions and consulting services to the airline industry. Our owners and managers are all former international flight crewmembers with senior airline management experience in training, standards, cabin service, personnel, customer service, and fleet management. Whether your company is looking for highly qualified flight crew or assistance in the design and implementation of training or operating processes, nearly two hundred years of operating experience enables us to help you identify solutions that generate true synergy between employer, employee, and technology.

Flight crewmembers seeking rewarding positions will find our Crew Guide, Available Positions, and Register On-line pages most useful. Our Briefing Room page, which provides access to FAQs, Global Flyer’s contracts, airline profiles, technical references, and current NOTAMS from Global Flyers, is available only to registered associates.

Airlines seeking flight crew, training support, or consulting assistance will want to visit our Airline Guide. If you would like to receive a report of current crew availability, please submit your qualification timing requirements and timing on our Crew Search page. We will promptly advise you of our ability to fill your needs.

As with all companies, our people are the engines that drive performance. Managing Director, Captain Robert R. Bumgarner, was one of the pioneers in the quality improvement movement in the United States, having served as a Director of the International Association of Quality Circles in the early 1970’s. More recently, he served as General Manager of the Standardization Department and senior B747-400 check airman with a major Pacific Rim airline. During 43 years as an aviation professional, he has accumulated more than 23,000 worldwide flight hours, has written and published numerous airline policy and procedures manuals, administered quality enhancement programs such as ISO 9001-2000, designed and implemented human resource development training programs for managers and crewmembers, and been responsible for the selection, hiring, and evaluation of airline pilots. Captain Bumgarner has consulted with major training providers such as Alteon Training, L.L.C. and the University of Hawaii and is listed in the U.S. Department of Commerce Guide to Labor Management Cooperation.

Managing Director Janis S. Bumgarner, JD, is an accomplished international immigration attorney and a member of the California State Bar. She formerly served as Chairperson of the Association of Flight Attendants in Hawaii and was the National Safety Director for A.F.A. in Washington, D.C. Ms. Bumgarner is responsible for human resource recruting and administration.

Vice President, Asia Airline Services, Mr. Shen Wen Cheng, has more than 35 years of airline experience, including service as Director of Customer Services, Deputy Director Human Resources, Deputy Director Flight Operations, Manager of Cabin Crew, and is a trained ISO 9000 auditor who sucessfully managed large-scale safety and operations quality enhancement projects for major Asian airlilnes.

Vice President, Training Services, Captain Garth Martin, is a Canadian citizen with more than 43 years airline experience. He has served as Vice President, Flight Operations for Canadian airlines and has 15 years management and training experience with major Asian airlines. Most recently he was General Manager Training for a Taiwan-based airline, with responsibility for pilot recruiting and all pilot training programs. In a consulting capacity, he has also designed and implemented ab initio pilot training programs that "bridge" the gap between commercial pilot training and airline pilot jet transition training.

Dr. Ashleigh Merritt is Chief Consulting Psychologist to Global Flyers. Dr. Merritt earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and was associated with Professor Robert Helmreich’s NASA / FAA Aerospace Crew Research Project. She recently served as Project Manager with Jean Pariès safety and human factors consulting group, Dédale, Paris, France and is now a Professor at the University of Texas. Dr. Merritt is co-author of the seminal book, Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational, and Professional Influences, and has authored numerous articles relating to the effects of culture on individuals and organizations, human error and error management in aviation, and the development of CRM programs.

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