Pratt & Whitney Canada Customer Training Centre Introduces Direct On-line Enrolment

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. 2000, New Orleans, 10 October 2000 – <%=company%> (P&WC) is pleased to announce that its Customer Training Centre has launched Direct On-line Enrolment. This service offers an on-line environment for customers to register for instructor-led engine courses, and receive instant confirmation of enrolment.

"With an approved username and password, our customers world-wide can now easily access a registration environment using an Internet browser," said Dale Reid, Manager, P&WC Customer Training Centre. "They will be able to view our course catalogues, schedules, a list of their enrolments, and transcripts of the courses they have completed at P&WC. We believe this service will be much appreciated by all our customers."

The P&WC Customer Training Centre offers tuition-free engine training for operators of P&WC engines from its main facility in St. Hubert, Quebec, and at satellite facilities in Ludwigsfelde, Germany and Singapore. Customer training is also provided by P&WC in Brisbane, Australia and Lanseria, South Africa. More than 35,000 students from all over the world have been trained by P&WC instructors over the past three decades.

P&WC, based in Longueuil, Quebec, is a world leader in aviation engines powering business and regional aircraft and helicopters. The company also offers advanced engines for industrial applications. P&WC's operations and service network span the globe. In 1999, sales were in excess of $2 billion Cdn. P&WC is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Connecticut.