A former cabin crew member of Jet Airways, who co-founded real estate consultancy firm Sai Estate Consultants, has offered jobs to the airline's distressed employees, who find themselves in the middle of nowhere as the carrier has suspended all its operations temporarily.
Jet Airways, after flying for over 25 years, on Wednesday announced that it was suspending both, domestic as well as international operations temporarily after the lenders refused to accept its request for an urgent infusion of funds. Employees of the debt-laden airline protested on Thursday in New Delhi and Mumbai, seeking their unpaid dues, urging to "save Jet Airways".
Amit Wadhwani's firm has about 500 vacancies across cities, for which recruitment process has already started. "Interviews have already started and around 100 employees from the airline have contacted us," Salome Peters Shah, Head HR of Sai Estate Consultants told CNBC-TV18.
"We are hiring for different positions like quality assurance, pre and post sales, audits, marketing, public relations, digital marketing, banking and finance and we have already rolled out offer letters to many of them," she added.
Shah said that the airline's staff would have all the qualities required for these positions and would also come with an acute sense of customer delight which is useful in any industry.
"I owe my handsomeness to Jet Airways. Happy to recruit from my favourite airline," co-founder Wadhwani said in a Facebook post.
Besides, School of Communications and Reputation has also come to the rescue of Jet's employees, offering them an interest-free education loan to do a full-time postgraduate programme that culminates with a job in Public Relations.
Low-cost airline carrier and top rival SpiceJet too is now hiring engineers and pilots from financially-troubled Jet Airways.
"As we expand and grow, we are giving first preference to those who have recently lost their jobs due to the unfortunate closure of Jet Airways. We have already provided jobs to more than 100 pilots, more than 200 cabin crew and more than 200 technical and airport staff." said Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director, SpiceJet.
"We will do more. We will also induct a large number of planes in our fleet soon. SpiceJet is making all possible efforts to minimise passenger inconvenience and serve Indian customers who are finding it difficult to get seats in this busy season,"he assured.
