On Thursday, Rémi Maillard, President and Managing Director of Airbus India and South Asia said that India will require 2,840 new aircraft and 41,000 pilots as well as 47,000 technical staff in the next 20 years.
In Hyderabad, while talking to reporters on the sidelines of the aviation conclave and exhibition, Wings India 2024, Maillard said Airbus will double its sourcing from India to $1.5 billion by the end of the decade from the existing $750 million.
Maillard said that last year the company got orders for 750 aircraft. Airbus delivered 75 units to Indian carriers (19 to Air India, 14 to Vistara, 41 to Indigo, and 1 to Go First).
India will power global aviation in the coming decades, he said and added that the prediction is that the country will need 2,840 new planes over the next 20 years to serve the needs of its growing aviation demand.
He also said that in India the A350 plane is the catalyst of the revolution in international travel. Last year, already six of those planes were delivered to Air India, said Rémi Maillard.
He predicted that in the next 20 years, India will remain the fastest-growing economy in the globe with 6.2 per cent growth every year.
