Kolkata: India’s leading airline, IndiGo on Wednesday announced the extension of its learning academy, ifly to Bangalore reinforcing its commitment to augment the learning and development footprint.
It will facilitate trainings for its employees starting September 6. ifly has over 100 instructors who regularly conduct workshops for over 27,000 IndiGo employees.
It has been instrumental in extending training to IndiGo employees.
ifly specializes in facilitating specific trainings throughout the year which include, customer services, ramp and marshalling training, communication and leadership training, departure control system, safety and emergency procedures, and e-learning amongst other training modules.
Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, President and Chief Operating Officer and Raj Raghavan, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, IndiGo said, "This launch is in line with our endeavour to make IndiGo India’s best company to work for. In the last one year, we have had 114 batches of cabin crew (2400 cabin attendants) and 27 batches of JFO’s (500 pilots) graduate. In addition, we have had 300 engineers, 1330 Airport operations and Customer services (AOCS) and 1500 Security colleagues graduate out of various programs at ifly. ifly truly has been instrumental in nurturing the culture of the company and with this extension we will continue to strive to provide more conducive working culture for 6E employees."
Summi Sharma, Vice President, ifly Learning Academy, IndiGo said, "We are proud to institute the ifly learning academy in Bangalore that will deliver world-class customised training programmes to our employees, creating a pipeline of leaders across streams. ifly represents the spirit of IndiGo wherein we place a lot of emphasis on individual empowerment to ensure that every employee holds true to our promise of on-time, courteous and hassle-free service. The extension of ifly will ensure recurrent and refresher training to support our rapid growth in the country, by providing skilled and motivated manpower."
