{"id":755,"date":"2008-09-06T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=755"},"modified":"2008-09-06T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:35:00","slug":"careers-in-aviation-grow-even-as-sector-witnesses-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/09\/careers-in-aviation-grow-even-as-sector-witnesses-slowdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Careers in aviation grow even as sector witnesses slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#990000;\">New Delhi<\/span>: The Indian aviation sector may have hit an air pocket because of an industry slowdown and rising airfares, but a leading travel and tourism training institute says this is temporary &#8211; the sector will boom, and jobs abound.<br \/>The Kuoni Academy of Travel, the Mumbai-based training institute that is part of the Kuoni Travel Group, has tied up with the Britain-based Cabin Crew Direct and the Dubai-based International Airline and Business Academy (IABA) to train cabin crew aspirants.<br \/>It is offering a four-month diploma course comprising 18 modules designed in association with leading international airlines to meet training standards across the world.<br \/>&#8220;We have tried to ensure that our courses meet the highest standards of quality. The tie-up with Cabin Crew Direct and IABA underlines our commitment to provide Indian students with world class content which can help them with their careers,&#8221; Kuoni Academy principal Smeeta Gulvady said.<br \/>The International Air Transport Association (IATA), in its latest estimates, reckons India will be the driving force behind the world&#8217;s civil aviation business that is globally expected to grow from $5.1 billion to $5.6 billion this year.<br \/>The current market size of the international air traffic in India is nearly $5 billion (Rs.21,000). Industry insiders forecast that it is expected to grow phenomenally, creating a huge need for skilled manpower.<br \/>&#8220;There is such a huge demand for cabin jobs and a vast number of such jobs are available &#8211; not necessarily in India at the moment due to temporary problems,&#8221; John Ellis, chief executive officer of Cabin Crew Direct, told IANS in an email interview.<br \/>Ellis said Indians perform better as cabin crew than many nationalities across the globe because they are highly educated.<br \/>&#8220;They adapt well to training, they are very presentable, and India is the nation that speaks English best though it is not the country&#8217;s first language,&#8221; Ellis said.<br \/><span style=\"color:#990000;\">05\/09\/08 IANS\/Economic Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian aviation sector may have hit an air pocket because of an industry slowdown and rising airfares,<\/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-755","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\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}