UAE airlines go on hiring overdrive as they expand services

UAE airlines go on hiring overdrive as they expand services

Dubai: As UAE and regional airlines go on a hiring overdrive as they expand services, aviation training colleges are seeing a spike in demand, and offering attractive pay packages. In some cases, registrations for IATA-certified cabin crew learning programmes have shot up by at least 40 per cent since Q4 last year as airlines ramp up their hiring activity to unprecedented levels. Dr Sathya Menon, CEO of Blue Ocean Corporation, an organisation that trains cabin crew aspirants, said: “We have grown considerably since Q1 last year. Our enrollment numbers for the IATA-certified cabin crew training programme (offered at Blue Ocean Academy) during Q4 2022 was 200, and have gone up by nearly 40 per cent during Q4 this year (275 new students). Almost all regional airlines are still pushing massive recruitment drives to meet cabin crew staffing requirements. “Be it national, legacy, low cost, or small airlines, almost all of them are on a hiring spree,” said Mark Kammer, Operations Director at Dynamic Advanced Training at the Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub. UAE carriers are organising massive recruitment drives (locally and internationally) as they gear up for new airline deliveries and the unprecedented travel demand. And while getting a training