05-29-2005, 07:01 AM
Indian Air crews on cloud nine?
Yemen Airlines recently came to India for campus recruitment â to hire cabin crew. It was following British Airways, Virgin, Royal Jordanian and Emirates, all of which have already hired from Indian training institutes.
Foreign airlines are airlifting Indian cabin crew by the dozen. <b>Around 21,000 new jobs are going to be created in this sector in the next three years </b>â thanks to an increasing number of carriers either starting shop or expanding their service networks. Of this, 60 per cent of the jobs are going to be with foreign airlines (last heard, the number of weekly flights to Germany are going to be upped to 50 from winter this year â from the current 27).
Taking off simultaneously is the cabin crew training sector â a market that, according to K.S. Kohli, chairman, Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training, opened up in 2000 and will be worth around Rs 1,500 crore in the next three years. <b>There are already 230 training institutes for this sector in the country</b>.
When foreign airlines recruit, only 20 per cent of the advertisements come out in the public domain in India. Training institutes source the remaining 80 per cent.
Why are Indian cabin crew flying high? âIndians come for one-third the salaries that people in the US or Europe get,â says Kohli. Emirates, for instance, pays around a lakh to Indians âbut if they hire someone from the US or Europe, theyâd have to pay thrice over.
âThe price of labour here is cheap, but the quality is world-class,â says Pammi Talwar of the Air Hostess Training Institute that is affiliated to Rai University, and gives a Bachelorâs degree in the field for a three-year course.
Yemen Airlines recently came to India for campus recruitment â to hire cabin crew. It was following British Airways, Virgin, Royal Jordanian and Emirates, all of which have already hired from Indian training institutes.
Foreign airlines are airlifting Indian cabin crew by the dozen. <b>Around 21,000 new jobs are going to be created in this sector in the next three years </b>â thanks to an increasing number of carriers either starting shop or expanding their service networks. Of this, 60 per cent of the jobs are going to be with foreign airlines (last heard, the number of weekly flights to Germany are going to be upped to 50 from winter this year â from the current 27).
Taking off simultaneously is the cabin crew training sector â a market that, according to K.S. Kohli, chairman, Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training, opened up in 2000 and will be worth around Rs 1,500 crore in the next three years. <b>There are already 230 training institutes for this sector in the country</b>.
When foreign airlines recruit, only 20 per cent of the advertisements come out in the public domain in India. Training institutes source the remaining 80 per cent.
Why are Indian cabin crew flying high? âIndians come for one-third the salaries that people in the US or Europe get,â says Kohli. Emirates, for instance, pays around a lakh to Indians âbut if they hire someone from the US or Europe, theyâd have to pay thrice over.
âThe price of labour here is cheap, but the quality is world-class,â says Pammi Talwar of the Air Hostess Training Institute that is affiliated to Rai University, and gives a Bachelorâs degree in the field for a three-year course.