IndiGo Airlines aims to implement evidence-based training programmes for its pilots.
With over 2,300 flights operating daily, IndiGo is expanding its fleet by adding widebody planes. IndiGo has a fleet of over 400 planes, and more than 900 aircraft are on order. The airline’s pilot strength is likely to double from the current level of more than 5,300 by 2030.
The airline currently employs over 5,300 pilots and hopes to double the number by 2030. The airline aims to enhance the competencies of its pilots, including improved situational awareness, through a new training regime, as per a senior official. Currently, IndiGo uses Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA).
“When you become CBTA-compliant, you eventually end up, once you mature, you become EBT-compliant,” the senior airline official told the Press Trust of India (PTI), referring to Evidence-Based Training (EBT).
“So right now, we are just baselining the CBTA. Now, with all the data we are going to use, and with the help of the world’s best practices…or having consultants on board, we need to see how we can eventually reach the EBT stage,” the official added.
Competency-based training programmes focus on various crucial skills, including enhanced situational awareness, decision-making, and corporate resource management. IndiGo will use a huge amount of evidence-based data, as per the official, along with data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
“We will first of all collect all the data, validate all the data…then base the training programme on the data,” the official added. “The earlier we can get it, the better it is, but of course it will take a year, year-and-a-half to do EBT.”
