Cabin Crew Direct to set up seven training centres along with Kuoni India
19 Aug 2008
New Delhi: Global aviation training and recruitment major, Cabin Crew Direct, will set up seven cabin crew training and recruitment centres in the country. The UK-headquartered firm said it would run the centres in collaboration with Kouni India, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Kouni International.
The service provider said it plans to place around 70-80 cabin crew executives with major global airlines by end of the year. "We have just set up the first centre in collaboration with Kouni at New Delhi and would be opening six other centres at Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Chandigarh soon," Cabin Crew Direct chief executive officer, John Ellis, said.
Ellis also said that the company aims to tap the existing market for cabin crews in major airlines, specially those from the Middle East. "We have agreements with major airlines from the Middle East region including Qatar Airways, Air Arabia, Gulf Air and Emirates. The demand for cabin crew members is extremely high with the Middle East airlines themselves likely to have a vacancy of close to 18,000 during the year," Ellis said.
He added that the size of the aviation market in India is itself around Rs21,000 crore.
"This holds immense potential and we are keen to tie up with airlines from this part of the world as well. Our training and recruitment programme assures quality upmarket service," Ellis said.
