Huge Job Opportunities in Indian Aviation Industry

After Sept 11, 2001 when USA got struck byand value airline Kingfisher Airlines, there are Indus
terrorist attack, almost all the industries has beenAirways, Air One, East West Airlines, Go Airways,
affected. But Aviation Industry is one of theMagic Air and Crystal Air who are getting ready
hardest hit, as the major airlines likes of Swiss Airto fly Indian sky soon. India is to see the launch
and American airlines. But despite of all theseof at least 14 such airlines. Low cost start-up
happenings Indian Aviation industry though minutecarrier IndiGo had stunned the aviation industry by
could withstand this pressure and had grown leapsplacing orders for 100 aircraft at a list price of
and bounds. This is  due to the growth of Indianover $6 billion last year.
economy and tourism industry in particular in theIt is anyone’s guess as to Human Resource
last few years.Requirements, especially pilots, airhostesses, flight
In the last two years many a new airlines haveattendants and other cabin crew, that are going
come to the fore in a huge way and many hugeto come up in the Aviation Sector. Demand is
industries have declared their wishes to enter intomuch above the number of people acquiring
this industry. Another major leap was the opentraining for the same. Jet Airways along with
sky policy of Government of India permitting theSahara India has about 47 percent share of the
existing private airlines in India to fly to foreigndomestic aviation market, followed by Indian
destinations.Airlines (28 per cent), Air Deccan (11 per cent),
It does require a special mention that with suchKingfisher (6 per cent) and SpiceJet (5 per cent)
expansions planned by major aviation companiesas on October2006.
and new companies formed there is a vastJet Airways tops the list of domestic and national
manpower requirement. Qualified manpower is incarrier operators with 8,168 flights operating till
huge abundance in India but they need a properJune 2005. Indian Airlines ranks second with 7,562
direction to capitalise on this surge in industry.flights, followed by Sahara (3,225 flights), Air
When the human resources needed by theseDeccan (2,889 flights), Spice Jet (483 flights) and
companies were less in number, it was easy toKingfisher Airlines (267 flights).
tap from a huge HR bank but when the demandThe sudden boom in Indian aviation has caught
for such HR increased they are finding iteven the normally market savvy global aerospace
extremely difficult to maintain the quality of HRmanufacturers unawares. Recently, both Boeing
selected for these jobs especially when more andand Airbus said they had underestimated Indian
more foreign airlines are flying into India offeringgrowth. This means global players are also coming
high salary packages forcing the better of HR tointo the scene.
go with these companies.It wasn't surprising since statistics compiled by
It is important to mention here that Indian aviationAirbus Industrie showed that Indian carriers
industry grew by 20% second only to BPOaccounted for 327 out of the 2,140 firm orders
industry in services sector and then comes thefor new aircraft that were placed with it and rival
concept of no frills airline the market for which isBoeing in 2005. This does not take into account
growing vastly. Many no frills airline have alreadythe orders placed for smaller airplanes with other
announced their plans to start services to India amanufacturers like ATR and Dassault - which, too,
few of them are Nok Air, Air Asia-Thailand, Airare flooded with offers from private Indian
Arabia etc.carriers.
The boom in the aviation sector in India can beThe Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, is
gauged by the fact that in one year, the numberbullish on the prospects in the Indian market. Their
of people seeking pilot licenses and airhostessforecast is that between 2006 and 2010, the
training has multiplied three times. In April 2005, itdemand for 30-120-seater planes in India would be
was 300. In April 2006, the number rose to 1045.around 165, which is about 40 per cent of the
The civil aviation industry is booming. Indian airlinesdemand of the Asia-Pacific region. The value of
placed orders for over 400 aircraft worth athese aircraft would be around $4 billion.
whopping $30 billion for its operationalThey feel that a majority of the aircraft required
requirements. That shows a requirement of 5600will be in the 61-120-seat capacity segment. 70
pilots, 19000 airhostess or cabin crew, 24000per cent of these would be required for market
technicians, 36000 ground handling crew andgrowth while there would be a small demand for
various other related vacancies.replacement.
And these aviation industry vacancies are all freshGlobalysis Ltd.forecasts growth in India's aviation
vacancies without including vacancies that maymarket, to be one of the fastest growing in the
come up in the existing aircrafts.world, for the years 2007-2008. The Globalysis
Also the pay packages offered by the variousresearch report forecasts growth in India's
Indian airlines have also seen an upward trend dueaviation market ofapproximately 28% in 2007 and
to very few number of trained pilots and cabin24% in 2008, for a total of approximately 52
crew availability. Hence there is an opportunity formillion passengers being carried in 2008.
you.From the above given facts this is the right time
Indian aviation is witnessing a mushrooming ofto invest in a business opportunity and anyone
new airlines especially low cost carriers. Besideswith cash and liquidity can go in for the kill.
the existing Air Deccan, newly launched Spicejet