Overview

• Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu inaugurated the 12,000 sq m facility at Air India’s Gurugram academy, built as an equal joint venture.
• The centre will host 10 full‑flight simulators, with two A320 devices operational now and six more A320 plus two A350 simulators to be installed in phases.
• Courses cover A320 and A350 fleets and are approved by India’s DGCA and Europe’s EASA.
• Air India plans to train more than 5,000 new pilots over the next decade while consolidating pilot instruction at the Gurugram campus.
• The hub complements four A320 simulators at Airbus’s New Delhi centre to create a 14‑simulator network, alongside pipeline investments in an Amravati FTO and a Bengaluru BMTO targeted for FY27.