Huge Potential in India for Aerospace

India will be the fastest growing country for air travel over the next 10 years, since there is a lot of scope for its economy to develop, according to David Dufrenois, head of sales (India), Airbus (EADS).

Delivering a key note address on “Global perspective on opportunities in aerospace” at a seminar on “Aerospace & Defense, Karnataka: The aerospace hub of Asia”, Dufrenois said India has 3.8 million population per aircraft. “There is a huge potential for the growth of air travel in the country, since more and more middle-class people are opting for air travel. However, it is lower when compared to China, which had a similar volume of air travel a decade ago,” Dufrenois said.

Srinivasan Dwarakanath, vice-president, international cooperation, Airbus, in his address said that around 2,000 people from India had been working with Airbus supply chain and every Airbus A320 aircraft was partly made in the country. “We have trained 950 people and completed 117 courses at our training centre,” Dwarakanath says.

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