{"id":194,"date":"2007-07-10T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:50:00","slug":"cabin-crew-schools-take-off-as-indians-reach-for-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/07\/cabin-crew-schools-take-off-as-indians-reach-for-the-sky.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabin crew schools take off as Indians reach for the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >W<\/span>ith supply far outstripping demand for well-paid airline jobs, cabin crew training schools have sprouted across India, luring aspirants with glossy adverts with often white-skinned models, and a promise of job placements.<br \/>Many airlines dismiss them as commercial ventures out to exploit aspirants from small towns, but their growth story continues.<br \/>The largest, Frankfinn Institute, has expanded from a single branch four years ago to 79 now, along with 30 information offices in remote areas, and plans to spread in South Asia, West Asia and South Africa.<br \/>It has about 15,000 students on its rolls and charges about $2,850 (Rs1,15,140) \u00e2\u20ac\u201dnearly as much as many private medical and engineering schools do\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto impart non-academic and non-technical training.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of these people would never make it. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t groom people lacking in social skills with two-hour classes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Vijaya Lukose, head of in-flight services at Air Deccan and author of 10 Steps to Become an AirHostess.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They are just money-making shops.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>Staff at Frankfinn admit that many of its 15,000 students will not make it as flight attendants.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The retail industry is booming. Our students have a lot of opportunities as store and service managers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said personality development trainer Sangeeta Singh.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">10\/07\/07 Parul Gupta, AFP\/Livemint<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With supply far outstripping demand for well-paid airline jobs, cabin crew training schools have sprouted across India, luring aspirants with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}