India's leading aviation service training institute, AHA Air Hostess Academy, recently organised a round table conference on safe career options in aviation and hospitality sector in India. The conference was attended by several industry leaders.

Anil Bhandari, managing director - JHM Interstate Hotels India Ltd, Kamal Hingorani, vice president – SpiceJet, John Powell, regional manager - north and east India - Qantas Airways, Pran Dasan, regional manager - South Asia and Pakistan - Kuwait Airways, addressed the students on this occasion.


Sapna Gupta, founder and director, AHA Air Hostess Academy and Rajan Mehra, business head, strategic alliance department, AHA were 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.

Gupta 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 the government of India are working extremely hard at the moment in this direction.”


More than 500 aspirants from all branches of AHA Air Hostess Academy in Delhi NCR were part of this discussion.


About 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 and 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 organisation 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 business process outsourcing establishments, including Qatar Airways, American Airlines, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic, Sri Lankan Airlines, Jet Airways, China Eastern Airlines, Air Deccan, 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.