How Airbus, Boeing are Helping Aviation Engineering Startups in India

By 2025, India is expected to surpass the U.K. as the world’s third largest market for commercial airline operations. The South Asian nation’s passenger traffic is projected to surge to 278 million annual passengers while also accounting for 19.1 million new aviation jobs according to the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) latest 20-year global forecast. Boeing also projects demand for 2,100 new airplanes worth $290 billion in India over the next 20 years.
This type of robust growth potential has attracted major investment from aerospace industry giants to establish new facilities in India. Airbus, for example, has a joint commercial and defense aircraft training and engineering center with 5,000 employees in Bangalore. There the company is developing flight management systems, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and digital simulation and visualization.