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The growth of air cargo in India has also been manifold thought it might not have kept pace with the progress made all over the world. Table 1 show how both international and domestic air cargo traffic has increased, reflecting an overall year on year growth.

Table 1: Trends in cargo traffic at five international airports in India. (Figures in '000 tones)

(Source-Transport India 2000)

Future Outlook Of The Industry Future projection reflect that the air cargo industry both in the domestic sector and the international sector will continue at a somewhat steady rate of growth whereas the international air cargo movement as illustrate in fig.2 shows a steeper rate of growth indicating that international air cargo trade will flourish at a higher rate of growth.

Both Domestic cargo and International cargo are poised to grow according to the projections. The major reasons, which can be attributed to this increase, are

• Increase in overseas trade
• India economic policies
• Customer service orientation
• Inventory concerns
• E-commerce development

Pilot shortage threatens to ground aviation sector

The Indian aviation industry is besieged with a crippling problem of acute shortage of pilots which could jeopardize its multi-million dollar expansion programmes.

The total number of  additional aircraft in the next five years is estimated at 500,for which an additional 5,000 pilots would be required,” aviation ministry sources told PTI. Currently, 2,940 pilots employed against are requirement of 3,160 pilots, leaving a shortfall of around 7%, they added.

They cited that though Indian Airlines has no shortage of pilots, Air India has shortfall of 118 pilots, which galvanized the government to conditionally increase the maximum age the pilots from 58 to 65 years.

To increase the number of pilots, the government was planning to hike seats in the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uraan Academy to 100 from 40, sources said. Besides, the government was finalizing plans to set up a world –class training academy at Gondia in Maharashtra while permitting Air India to recruit graduates in science and engineering a cadet pilots.

There are 791 trainee pilots working with India’s various airlines, such as Air India, which has 690 pilots including those on contract, they added.