Aviation Academy to offer affordable aviation training to underprivileged women

Mumbai: Seva Mandal Education Society (SMES), a 52 year-old trust dedicated to empowerment of women through education, in collaboration with Livewire Training & Management Services Pvt. Ltd (LTMS) recently launched Aviation Careers Academy (ACA) to provide deserving but underprivileged, aspiring women with an opportunity to make careers in aviation, hospitality and travel and tourism. Talking to TravelBiz Monitor about the uniqueness of the academy in comparison to ones existing already, Kiran Yadav, Advisor, Livewire Training & Management Service Pvt. Ltd. (LTMS) said, “ACA will provide its students with a state-of-the-art facility with an infrastructure that boasts of the latest Airbus 320 aircraft mock-up fitted with modern gadgets like high sensitivity cameras, projectors etc. The students will be able to observe their activities through camera recordings and hence improve on their personality development. The courses offered are affordable at Rs 50,000 for the cabin crew training and Rs 25,000 for the travel agent training, which is one third the price of what other academies charge.”
The travel trade representatives who will work in association with the academy to provide efficient training to the students include GDS’s Galileo, Worldspan and online travel agent, Travelocity. ACA, according to Yadav, will have a committed team of senior airline professionals from airlines like Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines who will share their knowledge with the students during the training. He further added that the Indian travel trade associations like Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) and Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) through their association with ACA will benefit from trained and well-informed agents needed to satisfy the current manpower crunch in the industry and vice-versa.
28/02/09 Khushboo Sahrawat/TravelBiz Monitor