Jet Airways announced on Sunday that it will begin operations with an all-female cabin crew and will hire male cabin crew members “after it reaches operational scale,” according to news agency PTI.
Vistara Airlines implemented this policy only three years after its founding, in 2018, when it began hiring male cabin crew members.
“We have a small number of NCR-based cabin crew on our rolls who are trained and qualified on the Boeing 737 aircraft and will be flying our proving flights soon. Several of them had previously worked for Jet Airways.”
“While we exclusively have women in our cabin crew at the current start-up phase,” a Jet Airways official told PTI, “as an equal opportunity employer, we will have men as cabin staff as well once we achieve a certain operational scale.”
Jet Airways CEO Sanjiv Kapoor had stated that the airline hopes to resume operations by October 2022, a few months after clearing the revalidation procedure for its Air Operator Permit (AOP).
The airline stated that it has always had and would continue to have a gender-neutral recruiting policy.
“The initial women-only crew is only to simplify and optimise rostering, training, layover (overnight stay) costs and crew ratios while we are still subscale and our crew requirements are limited,” the spokesperson continued. “It is also reflective of the cabin crew applicant pool, which is predominantly female.”
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