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Newstrack
Kingfisher Airlines’ training university by 2010
Chetan Kapoor - New Delhi
Given the human capital crunch in the aviation industry and emphasising the
need to have skilled resource, India-based private full-service carrier, Kingfisher
Airlines is set to open an aviation training university by 2010.
"We are studying how bigger airlines are doing this and by 2010 the Kingfisher
Training University will be operational to train students locally. The university
will also be equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, including flight
training," mentioned Rubi Arya, assistant vice president-HR, Kingfisher
Airlines, at the recently concluded Airport and Airline 2008 Expo.
According to Arya, by 2010 itself, the country would need 2,700 pilots, 6,800
cabin crew and approximately 11,700 maintenance personnel. "The demand
is higher than supply," she said, "and rise in salaries of licensed
personnel has put pressure on margins."
The university, to be set up in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra will offer a full
time MBA course in aviation as well as some courses in hospitality and retail
management.
| Supreme Aviation India is on an expansion spree,
with plans to open training centres in Canada, Philippines and Australia
over the next three to four years. According to Amit Agarwal, its CEO, "Although
we have a collaboration with Monarch Air in the United States, these centres
will have nothing to do with them."
The institute is also in talks with an Indian university
to offer an MBA in aviation, graduation courses in aviation and aeronautics
to be incorporated into the syllabus from the coming academic year.
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