To fly for an airline in India you need a DGCA Commercial Pilot Licence: 18 at application, Physics and Mathematics in Class 12, a Class 1 medical, five written papers and 200 flying hours. Here are the steps in order, what drives training cost and what pilot demand looks like.

India is now the world's third largest domestic aviation market, with 1,700 aircraft on order and a projected need for 30,000 to 34,000 pilots. Here is where the jobs are, why training demand is rising and what it means for an aviation training franchise.