To become cabin crew in India you need to be 18, have passed Class 12 and meet DGCA's medical standards. Airlines train you after selection. Here is what a private air hostess course teaches, how airline training works, and the fee questions to ask before you pay.

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.