New Delhi, Dec 2 (TIWN) Air India on Friday announced that its maiden batch of cabin crew trainees and significant batch of new pilots since privatisation have graduated.

As for the new pilots batch, it had 40 men and 08 women who completed their training at Air India’s Hyderabad training campus, and will commence operating on the Airbus A320 fleet. Apart from the graduating batches, more than 59 new pilots are in various stages of training.

Recently, Air India has announced to increase the frequency of flights between key cities in the domestic sector and has also announced direct flights between Indian cities and key global destinations like Doha, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Birmingham. Further, Air India is set to commence direct flights from Delhi to key European cities like Milan, Vienna and Copenhagen, and from Mumbai to New York, Paris and Frankfurt.

“Air India is hiring across all business areas, and from all parts of the country, to support our transformation and ambitions growth plans. Attracting and developing enthusiastic and capable people is an important and crucial part of our Vihaan.AI transformation program,” added Wilson.