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In the air...

For those dreaming to fly high, literally, one more option has sprung up recently in New Delhi. Flying Cats, an air hostess academy, has opened its first centre at South Extension - II recently. It chose Malaika Arora Khan to counsel students in this very first session. Malaika who happens to be one of the panel members of the academy gave them orientation. A brand of Cosmos Airhostess Training School, Flying Cats claims to be the complete solution in training in aviation providing a world class education. To begin with hence, it is relying on names like Sabira Merchant, who will be the key member in designing the syllabus for speech, diction and personal development for students, apart from Aditi Gowatrikar, Zulfi Syed, Femina Miss India 2005 Amrita Thapar, make-up wizard Cory Walia, designer Ashley Rebello, who has also designed the uniforms of Flying Cats students and psychotherapist P. Khurana in its panel. . All these panel members will conduct workshops for students. Talking about the institute, the director Neetu Manikatalia said, "We provide laptops to our students, giving education through virtual class rooms via V-sat. We have tied up with Singapore Tourism Board for a Singapore trip where the students would be given hospitality training to provide them an international perspective of the aviation and hospitality sector."

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