Days after announcing two mega aircraft deals with Airbus and Boeing, Tata Group-owned Air India has said it will hire over 5,000 employees, including 900 pilots, in line with its massive expansion plans.
The airline is looking to hire over 4,200 cabin crew and 900 pilots this year, an announcement which was expected as the carrier last week placed an order to buy 470 aircraft from Boeing and Airbus, including 70 wide-body planes.
It is also planning to lease 36 aircraft and out of them, two B 777-200 LR have already been inducted.
The Tata Group flagship carrier said in a release on Friday that 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, which was acquired by Tatas early last year, hired more 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 release said.
The addition of fresh talent will accelerate the pace of cultural transformation at the airline and added that it is also looking to step up hiring of more pilots and maintenance engineers, according to Sandeep Verma, Head – Inflight Services at Air India.
Air India’s cabin crew will undergo a 15-week programme which will focus on imparting safety and service skills.
This training programme will have extensive classroom and in-flight training at the Air India’s training facility in Mumbai as well as familiarisation flights, the release said.
