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The scheduled Indian aviation industry had nearly ** thousand airline personnel in financial year 2023. IndiGo had the highest percentage of this total personnel employed in its private airlines in that year. It employed over ** thousand personnel, among which more than **** thousand were pilots and co-pilots. 

Foreign hires

In 2021, the regulating body for civil aviation issued ***commercial pilot licenses. However, there was a shortage of type-rated commanders due to the induction of new types of aircraft and the expanding fleet. IndiGo, had the most foreign pilot recruitments. This was followed by GoAir and AllianceAir. On a year-over-year basis, the number of foreign pilots flying in India rose by over times. Airlines were expected to draw and submit a phase out plan for expat pilots.

Maintenance, repair and overhaul-MRO

In order to achieve a **** trillion U.S. dollar economy, recently the government while announcing the economic restructuring of the aviation sector, reduced the goods and service tax from ** percent to **** percent for this sector. The contribution of this sector in the global MRO sector was minuscule, but with a growing fleet size, this share was expected to increase. By 2032, the market size of the MRO sector in India was estimated to be almost **** times that in 2022.