MUMBAI: US plane maker Boeing has mentioned India might require 31,000 pilots and a few 26,000 mechanics over the following twenty years amid the rising order e book of the plane unique apparatus producers.
Speaking at the sidelines of a CII tournament right here, Boeing India President Salil Gupte additionally mentioned the South Asian area is predicted to stay the quickest rising marketplace globally over the following twenty years.
“India goes to want over 31,000 pilots and 26,000 mechanics over the following twenty years to maintain the plane coming in. This is as essential part of the Indian enlargement tale because the plane (orders),” Gupte told reporters.
He said considering India’s air traffic growth, a lot of focus has to be on making infrastructure robust, both hard infrastructure which includes airports as well as critical infrastructure, which includes pilots, among others.
It may be mentioned here that Tata Group-owned Air India had last month announced placing orders for a total of 470 planes with both Boeing and European aviation major Airbus.
Last September, Boeing had projected India’s air traffic growth at around 7 per cent through 2040.
He also said that after coming out of the pandemic, the recovery in air travel demand has stunned the world and Boeing does not see any impact of the financial crisis on air travel growth.
It is “too early to know what the consequences of the bank situation of the US and Europe and others are going to be. At this stage, we really see no slowdown in the demand for aviation,” Gupte added.
There is a huge market for narrow body aircraft for Boeing in India, he said and added that, “(as much as) 90 per cent of the market over the next 20 years is going to be a narrow body market and we expect we will be successful in competing for those every single campaign (aircraft order).”
Gupte additionally emphasised that Boeing has a management place within the wide-body (dual aisle) plane section globally and it’s going to stay so in all of the markets, together with India.
Speaking at the sidelines of a CII tournament right here, Boeing India President Salil Gupte additionally mentioned the South Asian area is predicted to stay the quickest rising marketplace globally over the following twenty years.
“India goes to want over 31,000 pilots and 26,000 mechanics over the following twenty years to maintain the plane coming in. This is as essential part of the Indian enlargement tale because the plane (orders),” Gupte told reporters.
He said considering India’s air traffic growth, a lot of focus has to be on making infrastructure robust, both hard infrastructure which includes airports as well as critical infrastructure, which includes pilots, among others.
It may be mentioned here that Tata Group-owned Air India had last month announced placing orders for a total of 470 planes with both Boeing and European aviation major Airbus.
Last September, Boeing had projected India’s air traffic growth at around 7 per cent through 2040.
He also said that after coming out of the pandemic, the recovery in air travel demand has stunned the world and Boeing does not see any impact of the financial crisis on air travel growth.
It is “too early to know what the consequences of the bank situation of the US and Europe and others are going to be. At this stage, we really see no slowdown in the demand for aviation,” Gupte added.
There is a huge market for narrow body aircraft for Boeing in India, he said and added that, “(as much as) 90 per cent of the market over the next 20 years is going to be a narrow body market and we expect we will be successful in competing for those every single campaign (aircraft order).”
Gupte additionally emphasised that Boeing has a management place within the wide-body (dual aisle) plane section globally and it’s going to stay so in all of the markets, together with India.