UB plans Rs 200 cr aviation varsity

Mumbai: UB group, the promoter of fullservice airline Kingfisher Airlines, will start an aviation university with an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore. The university will house a fully equipped pilot training centre.
“The pilot training centres would be set up on the lines of flying schools in the country. The university would have all kinds of simulators to extend comprehensive training to aspiring pilots,” said UB Group Chairman and Kingfisher Airlines CEO Vijay Mallya.
Mallya said the UB Group was relocating its brewery to Taloja (near Navi Mumbai) from current location at Nerul.
“This location would be used for the aviation university. The readily available land will certainly speed up the process of setting up the institute,” he added.
The group has already launched Kingfisher Training Academy as a 100 per cent subsidiary, offering courses in retail, hospitality, aviation and customer services management sectors.
The academy is planning to have 10 more branches in key cities across the country by this financial year-end.
The campus is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that offer students a live cabin services simulator — an Airbus A320 mock-up, classrooms equipped with audio-visual facilities, computer-based training rooms, food & beverage service laboratory and grooming suite.
22/05/07 P R Sanjai/Business Standard