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Air India plans to hire greater than 4,200 cabin crew and 900 pilots this 12 months because the Tata Group-owned airline expands its fleet and operations.
The announcement comes shut on the heels of the provider inserting an order to purchase 470 plane from Boeing and Airbus, together with 70 wide-body planes.
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The airline, which was taken over by the Tata Group in January 2022, additionally plans to lease 36 plane and out of them, two B 777-200 LR have already been inducted.
In a launch on Friday, Air India stated it “plans to hire over 4,200 cabin crew trainees and 900 pilots in 2023 as the airline adds new aircraft and rapidly expands its domestic and international operations”.
Between May 2022-February 2023, the airline employed greater than 1,900 cabin crew. “Over 1,100 cabin crew have been trained in the last seven months (between July 2022-January 2023), and in the past three months, approximately 500 cabin crew have been released for flying by the airline,” the discharge stated.
Sandeep Verma, Head – Inflight Services at Air India, stated the addition of recent expertise will speed up the tempo of cultural transformation on the airline and added that it’s also trying to step up hiring of extra pilots and upkeep engineers.
The cabin crew will endure a 15-week programme to impart security and service abilities, and shall be coached to exemplify the perfect of Indian hospitality and Tata group tradition. The coaching programme will embody in depth classroom and in-flight coaching on the airline’s coaching facility in Mumbai in addition to familiarisation flights, the discharge stated.
