Training academies back in action after budget carriers start hiring

Even as full service carriers like Jet Airways and Kingfisher are implementing an agenda to trim down capacity, low cost carriers like IndiGo and SpiceJet are taking the lead in the market and hiring people.
As a result, air hostess training academies and cabin crew training centers are back in business. Leading academies like Frankfinn, AHA (Air Hostess Academy) and Avalon are flying high as budget carriers have set the ball rolling by hiring people across departments since January this year, bucking recessionary trends.
The recruitments are for the posts of pilots, cabin crew, airport managers, senior analysts, supervisors and ground instructors.
The New Delhi-based low-cost carrier SpiceJet has plans to recruit 400-500 people this fiscal. These will include 40 pilots and 60 cabin crew, besides those for security, reservations/ticketing and customer care. Even IndiGo airlines has been a frequent visitor at campus recruitments organised at AHA and Avalon.
“With all these airlines hiring, our placement record has improved by 5 per cent compared with last year. We have placed approximately 900 students this year. Our students have got placed in hotels, travel agencies and ground handling agencies earlier,” Sapna Gupta, founder and director of Air Hostess Academy, said
Air hostess training institute Frankfinn said it will invest Rs 400 crore in the next three years to increase its number of centers to 200 across the country and abroad. At present, Frankfinn has around 115 centers across the country.
17/06/09 Ruchi Panigrahi/Business Standard