Emirates spent $20m for cabin crew training

Dubai-based airline Emirates invested around $20 million in cabin crew training in last year, says a press release in Dhaka yesterday.

The Emirates Aviation College (EAC) - Crew Training has reported over 33,000 attendees in various training courses in last year. Trainings cover different disciplines from safety and emergency procedures, medical training, service and image, the release adds.

Through the trainings, in last year some 4,280 new cabin crew or 'ab initios' graduated  while some 4,136 existing crew trained for a cabin upgrade, 534 cabin crew graduated to be Pursers and 17,650 crew participated in their recurrent training - a mandatory course crew undertake every year.  

EAC - Crew Training is now conducting 3,994 courses equivalent to 0.24 million training days.

Catherine Baird, Senior Vice President of Cabin Crew Training in Emirates said: "The depth and diversity of our training operations is fundamental to the great service that we offer on Emirates, and it is something that we will always invest in. 2014 has been a busy year for the Cabin Crew Training team and it reflects the exponential growth of Emirates. We finished the year with a team of nearly 20,000 cabin crew,"

Opened in 2007, the EAC Crew Training facility supports training in a number of key learning areas for new recruits, the ab-initios, who undergo an intense 7.5 weeks of training.