A small, family-owned maintenance-training company has gone to court to battle the Goliath of pilot and maintenance training. West Simsbury, Conn.-based Global Jet Services, established in 1992 to provide corporate flight departments with on-site maintenance training, filed a lawsuit late last month in the U.S. District Court of New York, alleging antitrust violations against FlightSafety International. Global Jet Services said its business has been “injured” to the tune of “millions of dollars” because of FSI’s “unlawful” bundling of pilot and maintenance training, including “coercing” OEMs and corporate operators into “forced and unlawful” long-term exclusive contracts that combine both pilot and maintenance training. Global Jet Services is asking the court to enjoin FSI from continuing the practice of tying sales of pilot training to the purchase of maintenance training, and to award Global Jet Services an unspecified amount in damages. “We work with several training providers,” said a spokesman for Dassault Falcon Jet. “In addition to an ongoing relationship with FSI, we recently named CAE the provider of entitlement training for pilots, maintenance personnel and cabin crew for the Falcon 7X.” From a Gulfstream spokesman: “We enjoy a long-standing partnership with FSI, where we do cooperative training programs. I’m not sure the word ‘coerced’ is applicable to us.” Meanwhile, a spokesman for FSI declined to comment, saying, “We haven’t seen the [legal] papers.”