Good time in near future for Aviation and Hospitality industry

Industry leaders from Aviation and Hospitality sector came together to phase out the doubt of safe career in the aviation and services sector among the aspirants during a round table conference organised by AHA Air Hostess Academy today. Mr.Anil Bhandari, MD - JHMInterstate Hotels India Ltd, Mr.Kamal Hingorani, VP – SpiceJet, Mr.John Powell, Regional Manager - North & East India - Qantas Airways, Mr.Pran Dasan, Regional Manager - South Asia & Pakistan-Kuwait Airways addressed the students on this occasion. Ms.Sapna Gupta, Founder and Director, AHA Air Hostess Academy and Mr.Rajan Mehra, Business Head, Strategic Alliance Department, AHA was also present during the session.

During the discussion all speakers were unanimous on the point that current downturn is a temporary phenomenon and these Industries will eventually bounce back - and in a much bigger way! India's potential in both Aviation and Hospitality has not been met. Further in comparison to even its much smaller neighbours like Thailand and Singapore and Sri Lanka, India has a lesser frequency of flights and in the hospitality sector the total number of Hotel rooms is minuscule compared to its neighbours. For instance Bangkok alone has more Hotel rooms than all combined in India. More than 500 aspirants from all branches of AHA Air Hostess Academy in Delhi NCR were part of this discussion.

Talking on the future prospects in the aviation and hospitality industry and this initiative of bringing industry leaders on a single platform Ms.Sapna Gupta, Founder & Director - Air Hostess Academy said, “The current dark phase is most likely to be over by early next year and once again, we should see a robust growth in Aviation and Hospitality sector! We have ample opportunities to be explored and all concerned parties including Government of India are working extremely hard at the moment in this direction.”

AHA Air Hostess Academy

Started in the 1997 with a boot-strap budget in one room with three students and moving on to become one of the most reckoned Aviation & Hospitality institute with 40 centres spread across 29 cities in the country and training nearly 10,000 annually, AHA Air Hostess Academy’s has registered a meteoric growth.

AHA's "A" level faculty, comprising of serving and retired professionals, state-of-the-art infrastructure; and highly interactive,industry-relevant instruction mode and delivery mechanism is highly adequate in"job readying" youth to the exact specifications of the industry. The consistent quality deliverance has enabled AHA Air Hostess Academy to become the only training institute in the country to be validated by the Cambridge University and accredited with an ISO-9001:2000 certification. With the various firsts in its palate, the organization is widely acclaimed as the benchmark setter in the segment.

AHA is also known for its unmatched industry placement record with AHA students getting absorbed in leading airlines, hotels and BPO establishments,including Qatar Airways, American Airlines, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic, Sri Lankan Airlines, Jet Airways, China Eastern Airlines, Air Decccan, Spicejet,Kingfisher Airlines, Taj Palace Hotel, ITC Maurya Sheraton, Shangri-La Hotel, Radisson Hotel, Hyatt Regency, Grand Hyatt, The Oberois, The Grand Hotel, Rajputana Sheraton, Hotel Le Meridien and Mughal Sheraton Hotels, HCL, Convergys, amongst others.

True story, inspite of the current recession the education industry seems to be the one not affected by the current trend of businesses closing down. The recession has brought in an inadvertent trend, since the oil prices have gone down the airlines have slashed fares to almost rock bottom by some doing it at 70% i think there should be a local boom in domestic air travel thereby requiring more employment in that sector, even though surprisingly aviation sector was the first to go with job cuts, but it seems it will sing the revival song also first.