PUNE: Air India has received an unprecedented level of interest in its talent augmentation programme, which forms a key pillar of its five-year transformation roadmap, Vihaan.AI, its officials have claimed.
The first phase of this initiative to augment talent has received an overwhelming response Over 1,752 applications for pilots and 72,000 applications for cabin crew have been received in the last two months, which are in the process of assessment.
The airline, which had not recruited in non-operations areas for more than 15 years, is quickly adding talent in all spheres of its business, ranging from Commercial functions like revenue management, sales, distribution, network planning and marketing; Business Support Services including HR, finance, IT and analytics; as well as Operations, spanning inflight product design, ground, engineering & airport services, rostering and operations control.
