High-flying jobs boom grips India
CNN International - USA
(CNN) -- The golden age of flying with fashionable flight
attendants and unrivalled hospitality may be over in some
parts of the world, but in India it is only just getting
started.
From Amritsar to Calcutta, the subcontinent is on the verge of
an aviation revolution, with up to five new low-cost airlines
launching this year alone.
Other entrepreneurs are also hitching a ride on the low-cost
airline boom. Among these new opportunities includes the need
for training centers for flight attendants.
In India the career still carries a lot of glamor and at one
finishing school for cabin crew -- the New Delhi-based
Frankfinn Institute for Air Hostess Training -- all the women
have managed to secure a job even before they have graduated.
"It is a childhood dream and my parents want me to join this
field. It is a great feeling for us to be an air hostess,"
Priyanka Agarwal told CNN, from New Delhi, where she joined
the course after high school.
Agarwal realizes it is a tough job despite its glamorous
image. Training is conducted in a salvaged aircraft parked in
a residential neighborhood in the Indian capital, where
aspiring attendants get hands-on training.
With more airlines starting operations in India, such as
Kingfisher Airlines, SpiceJet and GoAir, (Full story) flight
attendant schools are confident they can place all their
students.
"About 21,000 to 40,000 job vacancies are expected in the next
three to four years, just for cabin crew jobs. So this is
really a boom time," says K.S. Kohli from the Frankfinn
Institute.
Yemen's national airline, Yemenia has even used the Frankfinn
Institute, recently recruiting 45 graduates to fill cabin crew
positions, according to a report in the Hindustan Times
newspaper.
The institute offers one-year training packages in aviation,
hospitality and travel management. The course fees start at
$1,700 and can be paid in installments, while selection for
the program is based on personal interviews.
Some youngsters, still in their late teens, will start their
careers earning much more than many of their parents -- up to
$1,500 a month in some cases.
Young women like Priyanka Agarwal say this is not so much
about the glamor as it is about becoming independent and
seeing the world.
CNN's Ram Ramgopal contributed to this report. |
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