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Air India gets DGCA nod for its own flying academy in Maharashtra
The Story in Brief
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: 3 sources, 3 neutral
Sources (3): cnbctv18.com (neutral report), economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report), timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
