# Air India gets DGCA nod for its own flying academy in Maharashtra 2026-10-30T17:08:01+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 3 independent outlets Air India has received approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to operate its own flying academy at Belora Airport in Amravati, Maharashtra, the airline announced on Friday (30 October 2026). It becomes the first Indian carrier to establish a flying academy in the country. Spread across 10 acres, the Air India Flying Academy will operate 31 single-engine and three twin-engine aircraft, a fleet of 34 total, alongside digitally enabled classrooms, student accommodation, a digital operations centre and a dedicated maintenance facility. The academy is the airline's second major training facility, complementing a 600,000 sq. ft training academy in Gurugram that Air India calls the largest aviation training institution in South Asia. Air India said the investment supports India’s growing pilot demand and strengthens domestic training capacity. A launch date for the academy has not been disclosed. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The three outlets uniformly report that Air India secured DGCA approval for a flying academy at Amravati’s Belora Airport with a 34-aircraft fleet. CNBCTV18 and The Economic Times add detail that one source omits about the airline's co-branded credit card programme announced two days earlier, which is not part of the academy story. The Times of India quotes Air India's X post verbatim, while the other two paraphrase. All adopt a straight, neutral-report tone without government-critical or pro-government framing. The balanced reading confirms the coverage is identical wire-style reporting, differing only in peripheral business announcements. The academy's operational start date is not given. ## Coverage Coverage: 3 sources, 3 neutral - cnbctv18.com (neutral report) Straight reporting, no slant - economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight reporting, no slant - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight reporting, no slant This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Air India, Amravati, Belora Airport, DGCA, Maharashtra Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/air-india-gets-dgca-nod-for-its-own-flying-academy-in-maharashtra/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/air-india-gets-dgca-nod-for-its-own-flying-academy-in-maharashtra/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/