{"id":529,"date":"2008-02-12T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=529"},"modified":"2008-02-12T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T06:01:00","slug":"aha-saga-of-india%e2%80%99s-first-academy-for-air-hostesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/aha-saga-of-india%e2%80%99s-first-academy-for-air-hostesses.html","title":{"rendered":"AHA! Saga of India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first academy for air hostesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >S<\/span>apna Gupta weaved her dreams around her passion and turned it into a successful business model. The director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airhostessacademy.com\/aha\/index.htm\">Air Hostess Academy<\/a> (AHA), Gupta set up her company in 1997 to train students for the jobs of airhostesses, flight stewards and airport ground staff.<br \/>A travel and tourism graduate from South Delhi Polytechnic, she started working with Cox &amp; Kings, a travel agency, in Delhi right after her graduation in 1994.It was barely four months with Cox &amp; Kings when she was offered the post of a junior lecturer in her college by the head of the department of the travel and tourism department.<br \/>Along with South Delhi Polytechnic, Gupta simultaneously imparted lecture at Bharti Vidya Bhawan and YWCA.<br \/> In 1997, Gupta, with an initial investment of Rs 25,000, set up her classes in an apartment in Delhi&#8217;s Amar Colony area, with three students enrolled for her course. The realisation to have a training institute dawned on the major players when the HR department at Jet Airways, the first airline she approached, saw the difference between her students and the candidates they recruited.<br \/>Needless to mention, there was no looking back thereafter and Gupta started organising seminars and inviting personnel from the aviation and hospitality sector to deliver lecture at her institute.<br \/>Starting from a small nondescript outfit in the nineties, AHA\u00e2\u20ac\u201driding on an annual turnover of Rs 80 crore\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtoday trains around 10,000 students across India every year for the services sector.<br \/>Following the success of AHA, she is currently on the verge of establishing Makeover, a venture aimed at providing initial grooming to aspiring candidates in tier two and three cities such as Bhatinda, Agra and Bhopal.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">11\/02\/08 Shruti Chauhan\/Economic Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sapna Gupta weaved her dreams around her passion and turned it into a successful business model. The director of Air<\/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-529","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\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}