Airbus has been providing maintenance training from its existing centre in Bangalore since 2007, and has so far trained over 2,750 maintenance engineers. The new centre will accelerate the pace of training to help match the A320neo deliveries to India. Staffed by Airbus trainers, the new pilot training centre will have the capacity to train over 8,000 pilots and 2,000 maintenance engineers over 10 years from 2018 onwards.

"On an average, one Airbus aircraft per week is expected to be delivered to Indian carriers over the next 10 years. The need for top quality training will be perpetual," said Dr. Srinivasan Dwarakanath, President of Airbus Division in India.

Airbus has shortlisted suitable sites near the airport area of Delhi, and will soon work towards finalizing the agreements for land, construction and simulator installation in 2017. Airbus operates similar centres in the Americas, Europe and Asia covering Airbus' range of aircraft. The India centre will join this existing network and will welcome its customer pilots and engineers in 2018.
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