Regarding shortage of pilots, IndiGo said it has an internal upgrade programme in place and is able to upgrade pilots in sufficient manner.
Budget carrier IndiGo is offering jobs to pilots of Jet Airways along with compensation for overdue salaries from the cash-strapped full service airline. IndiGo, the country's largest airline in terms of market share, also said that all job offers are in line with its current terms and conditions. Crisis-hit Jet Airways has not paid salaries to its pilots, engineers and other senior management for more than three months now.
IndiGo is offering Jet Airways' pilots job opportunities, an IndiGo spokesperson told PTI. The no-frills airline's response came to queries on whether it was looking to hire pilots from Jet Airways and also offering them significant amount as joining bonuses.
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The queries were sent to IndiGo's Chief Operating Officer Wolfgang Prock-Schauer. We are not offering a signing bonus. We are offering a compensation for overdue salaries, the spokesperson said.
On whether IndiGo is offering a bonus after third year of contract for pilots who would join from Jet Airways, the spokesperson replied in the negative. Regarding shortage of pilots, IndiGo said it has an internal upgrade programme in place and is able to upgrade pilots in sufficient manner.
Our pilot hiring programme always includes hiring from the market and Jet Airways is part of the external hiring programme, the spokesperson said. IndiGo is facing acute shortage of commanders amid aggressive expansion of its fleet. The carrier has more than 210 planes in its fleet.
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Earlier, an aviation industry source told PTI that IndiGo was wooing Jet Airways pilots with attractive pay packets to meet the shortage of commanders. We are conducting open house interviews to getting contact with pilots. That's a common practice in the aviation industry not specific to Jet Airways, the spokesperson noted. Shortage of trained and experienced pilots has been a problem for domestic airlines amid capacity expansion to meet rising passenger traffic.
Latest NewsWorld NewsPNR StatusEducation NewsBusiness NewsSports NewsMP Chhattisgarh NewsRajasthan NewsFukrey 3 Movie TicketCamera BackpackApple iPhone 15DSLR CamerasDoli SinghGandhi Jayanti 2023Stopgap Funding BillAfghanistan EmbassyTupac ShakurSwachhata AbhiyaanBased on their expansion plans, Tata Sons' two ventures, AirAsia India and Vistara, are expected to recruit at least 300 crew ebers between the over next 12 onths.
Indian carriers are in the arket to hire flight attendants en ass, as they add planes and fly to ore destinations to eet increasing deand for air travel. After being in the red for several years, ost airlines are reporting profits now, giving the confidence to expand.
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India’s top two carriers, IndiGo and Jet Airways, are each recruiting ore than 1, 000 cabin crew over the next one year, senior executives at the airlines told ET. At state-run Air India, the plan is to get 800 on board.
SpiceJet will be hiring 100 flight attendants a onth for the next three onths and thereafter 75 every onth. Go Air is inducting 50 each onth, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer said in a recent interview. Based on their expansion plans, Tata Sons’ two ventures, AirAsia India and Vistara, are expected to recruit at least 300 cabin crew ebers between the over the next 12 onths.
This hiring spree is backed by the Indian arket’s fastest expansion in several years. Doestic air traffic grew 18% in 2015 over 2014, the fastest annualised growth rate in the world, figures fro global lobbying body International Air Transport Association show. This year, India has been outpacing the world every onth in deand growth, IATA has said. India's fleet size is about 63% of the entire South Asia, but its outstanding orders for planes account for 95% of those fro the region, global consultant CAPA-Centre for Aviation wrote in a recent note. Airbus has said it will deliver one plane every week to Indian carriers for the next ten years.
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While the rosy industry fundaentals are likely to keep the job arket hot, a chunk of the new recruitents at airlines is to replenish vacancies created by attrition. Pilots and crew constitute a job segent which sees the axiu churn in the industry. For exaple, of the 1, 200 hires that IndiGo ade last year, about 900 were net additions while the rest were replaceents.
Sui Shara, vice president of corporate learning at IndiGo, said the nuber of freshers — high school graduates — as a chunk of total cabin crew recruits has steadily increased in the past few years.
Any also join fro other professions. “We get applicants fro various walks of life. We get call-centre eployees, hotel executives and even nurses and lawyers and teachers and national level sportspersons, she said.
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Airlines say they are investing significant oney and tie in new recruits to train the to suit their deands. This is leading to a declining relevance of cabin crew training institutes.
“The training such institutes ipart is extreely generic, ” said Kaal Hingorani, head of in-flight services and custoer experience at SpiceJet. “They are taught for the hospitality industry as well as for airlines: things like how to serve eals in proper order, etc. There is no training iparted which is specific to regulatory andates on how an airline should be operated. Also different airlines have different operations anuals and styles. And what we are priarily looking at is the basic attitude to provide service.”
Until a few years ago, a quarter of SpiceJet’s total cabin crew fro the six etro cities cae fro flight attendant training acadeies. Now that nuber has shrunk to below 10%.
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“No atter which institute a new recruit coes fro or for that atter how any years of flying experience a candidate coes with, we invest 99-100 days of rigorous training for the all to turn the into IndiGo cabin crew, ” said Shara fro IndiGo.
Gloria Shroff, vice president of training acadey Aptech Aviation, acknowledged the generic nature of the training iparted to its students in these institutes, but defended the saying the grooing provided would put graduates at an advantage over freshers. These institutes assue ore relevance in these sall towns, as youngsters there have less exposure to the kind of grooing that airlines look for in their cabin attendants, Shroff said.
Another change in trend is the nuber of applicants fro sall cities, Shara said, as there is higher awareness, openness, encourageent and faily support for woen to choose this career option.
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Also, career progression opportunities aren’t liited to just flight attendance, said airline executives. Five forer IndiGo cabin crew are now pilots. any others have joined the operations tea or have oved to the HR departent as instructors and facilitators.
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According to me we can not grow in the field without taking more responsibilities and risks and also we can’t enhance our team leading capabilities, managerial skills without expose to wide range of people.
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My name is XYZ. I have completed my “Degree” in “Course” from “Institute” . Intermediate & SSC from “Place” in CBSE board with first class marks.
The airline has ordered many new aircraft and is progressing well. So I want to be part of that and also one of my friends worked for you and recommended me to apply as she thought I would fit in with the company ideals.
I enjoy teamwork and am used to shift work. I think I would adapt well to the role. I am looking for new challenges and I know I would learn a lot as cabin crew, not just about people and places, but skills like first aid too, how can I help others with in my limits.
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Although I have applied for other airlines – this is the airline I want to work for most as it has a professional image and I always hear positive comments about the airline, so it would definitely be a great place for me to start as cabin crew.
Long time ago in a restaurant, the lady didn’t know what to eat for dessert, so I described each dish to her and she was trying to decide between two so I asked the chef if it was ok for her to have a small piece of each – she was very happy with that !
Q.7 How would you deal with being away from your friends and family for long periods of time when working as cabin crew?
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I know it is not so easy to go away from my friends and
