Air India on Friday announced its plan to hire over 4,200 cabin crew trainees and 900 pilots this year. The airline is expanding its domestic and international operations. The cabin crew will undergo a 15-week program imparting safety and service skills and will be trained, the airline said in a statement.
The training program will include extensive classroom and in-flight training at the airline’s training facility in Mumbai as well as familiarization flights.
Air India has done this in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden. It has decided to buy 470 aircraft from Boeing and Airbus under deals worth billions of dollars.
Sandeep Verma, Head of Inflight Services, said that cabin crew would play a decisive role in shaping the present and future of the Air India Group with more flights on international and domestic networks.
The airline said that Air India had hired over 1,900 cabin crew between May 2022 and February 2023, and over 1,100 cabin crew have been trained in the last seven months. In the previous three months, around 500 cabin crew have been released by the airline for flights.
