The Hindu Business Line : Air Hostess Academy plans 5 overseas training centres

It plans centres in Dubai, Oman, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia in association with local partners in the respective countries. Together, these centres would add around 1,700 seats for the academy.

The academy also plans to add nine centres domestically to take the total number of centres in the country to 24. While some of these centres would be run by the academy itself, the others would be franchised.

The Air Hostess Academy plans a centre each in Kochi, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Jammu, Bhubaneswar, Indore and Goa. These centres would have 200-300 seats each and would be set up in the next one year. Ms Sapna Gupta, Chief Consultant, AHA, said, "Not only is the service sector expanding rapidly but there is also an absence of any other quality training body which would cater to the manpower requirement of the hospitality and the airlines sectors."

The total student intake of the academy would go up to around 8,000 a year from 3,000 a year. Ms Gupta said the academy is also about to forge an alliance with a foreign institution for sending its students there for skill enhancement.

She, however, declined to divulge the name.

The academy recently discontinued its alliance with UK-based Edexcel.

The Air Hostess Academy offers one-year certificate and two-year diploma courses that cover modules on cabin crew training, ground duty at airports and hospitality management.

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