The boom in the aviation sector in India can be gauged by the fact that in one year, the number of people seeking pilot licenses has multiplied three times. In April 2005, it was 300. In April 2006, the number rose to 1045. The civil aviation industry is booming. Indian airlines placed orders for over 400 aircraft worth a whopping $30 billion for its operational requirements. That shows a requirement of 5600 pilots, 19000 cabin crew, 24000 technicians, 36000 ground handling crew and various other related vacancies.
And these aviation industry vacancies are all fresh vacancies without including vacancies that may come up in the existing aircrafts.
Also the pay packages offered by the various Indian airlines have also seen an upward trend due to very few number of trained pilots and crew availability. Hence there is an opportunity for you.
Indian aviation is witnessing a mushrooming of new airlines especially low cost carriers. Besides the existing Air Deccan, newly launched Spicejet and value airline Kingfisher Airlines, there are Indus Airways, Air One, East West Airlines, Go Airways, Magic Air and Crystal Air who are getting ready to fly Indian sky soon. India is to see the launch of at least 14 such airlines. Low cost start-up carrier IndiGo had stunned the aviation industry by placing orders for 100 aircraft at a list price of over $6 billion last year.
It is anyone’s guess as to Human Resource Requirements, especially pilots and cabincrew, are going to come up in the Aviation Sector. Demand is much above the number of people acquiring pilot licenses. Jet Airways along with Sahara India has about 47 percent share of the domestic aviation market, followed by Indian Airlines (28 per cent), Air Deccan (11 per cent), Kingfisher (6 per cent) and SpiceJet (5 per cent) as on October last year.
Jet Airways tops the list of domestic and national carrier operators with 8,168 flights operating till June 2005. Indian Airlines ranks second with 7,562 flights, followed by Sahara (3,225 flights), Air Deccan (2,889 flights), Spice Jet (483 flights) and Kingfisher Airlines (267 flights).
The sudden boom in Indian aviation has caught even the normally market savvy global aerospace manufacturers unawares. Recently, both Boeing and Airbus said they had underestimated Indian growth. This means global players are also coming into the scene.
It wasn't surprising since statistics compiled by Airbus Industrie showed that Indian carriers accounted for 327 out of the 2,140 firm orders for new aircraft that were placed with it and rival Boeing in 2005. This does not take into account the orders placed for smaller airplanes with other manufacturers like ATR and Dassault - which, too, are flooded with offers from private Indian carriers.
The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, is bullish on the prospects in the Indian market. Their forecast is that between 2006 and 2010, the demand for 30-120-seater planes in India would be around 165, which is about 40 per cent of the demand of the Asia-Pacific region. The value of these aircraft would be around $4 billion. We feel that a majority of the aircraft required will be in the 61-120-seat capacity segment. We believe that 70 per cent of these would be required for market growth while there would be a small demand for replacement.
Globalysis Ltd.forecasts growth in India's aviation market, to be one of the fastest growing in the world, for the years 2007-2008. The Globalysis research report forecasts growth in India's aviation market of approximately 28% in 2007 and 24% in 2008, for a total of approximately 52 million passengers being carried in 2008.
So why we telling you all this, plain and simple there are is an opportunity waiting to be grabbed by you. Don’t you want to have a part of Indian aviation growth for yourself? Get a highly paid pilot job or a cabin crew job. Then you are at the right place. You might have wondered how can I become a pilot or cabin crew without costing a bomb. And where do I get all the information.
We have been in the aviation consulting business since 4 years much before the aviation boom in India. But we want to share all those information with you regarding the pilot training or cabin crew training.
At www.sristysaviation.com you will find a starters guide which will guide you through how to go for a pilots license, what are the requirements for it, how examinations are conducted, what are the questions asked, expected answers, what after clearing the exams, exam schedules, addresses, whom to contact and many other details and guidance.
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