Overview

• India’s Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu inaugurated the advanced centre at Air India’s Gurugram academy alongside senior Airbus and Air India executives.
• The 12,000 sq metre facility is planned for 10 full flight simulators, with two A320 devices operational and six more A320 plus two A350 simulators to be added in phases.
• Courses at the centre carry approvals from India’s DGCA and Europe’s EASA, with a target to train more than 5,000 new pilots over the next decade.
• The site consolidates Air India’s pilot training at what the airline calls South Asia’s largest aviation training academy, and complements four A320 simulators at Airbus’s New Delhi centre for a combined network of 14 devices.
• Air India frames the hub as key to its fleet growth—including 570 aircraft on order—and to a wider talent pipeline that includes a DGCA-licensed FTO in Amravati targeting 180 pilot graduates a year and a BMTO near Bengaluru slated for FY27.