A Gurugram company on the same South African flying route as its neighbour, and the only one of them that publishes the full instalment schedule rather than just the total.
The genuinely useful thing this company publishes is not the total. It is the instalment schedule: eight payments, laid out, so you can see when the money is actually due. For a programme of this size that is the difference between a number and a plan, because almost nobody pays a cadet fee out of savings and a loan is arranged against a payment timetable rather than against a headline.
The rest is the same shape as the other Gurugram-to-South-Africa route in this directory. The office is in India, the flying is at a large South African academy, and the price is set in dollars.
One difference from its neighbour matters for how you read the rows below. This company publishes the dollar figure but not a rupee equivalent of its own, so the rupee line here is our research recording what that dollar figure came to on the day it was checked. That makes it Reported rather than Published, and it is the kind of distinction that is easy to lose and worth keeping.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | Garuda Aviation, which is also how it is commonly known |
| Bases | Gurugram, Haryana and 43 Air School, South Africa |
| Aircraft | None named in our source, so we name none |
| Courses | IndiGo cadet pilot programme |
| Figures checked | 14 June 2026 |
| What you pay for | Amount | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|
| The cadet programme, quoted in dollars | USD 131,000Published | Published with a full instalment schedule beside it, which is rarer than publishing the total. |
| The same programme in rupees, at the rate of the day it was checked | about ₹1,10,00,000Reported | Our research recorded this equivalent rather than the company printing it, so it is Reported and it drifts with the exchange rate. |
The cadet programme, quoted in dollars: read from the company's own cadet programme page, checked 14 June 2026. The same programme in rupees, at the rate of the day it was checked: read from the rupee equivalent our cost research recorded on the day it read the page, checked 14 June 2026.
The airline's selection comes first and placement here follows it, so the fee conversation begins after you have cleared an assessment rather than before.
Ask for the current instalment schedule in writing, because the published one is the most useful thing about this route and it is also the thing most likely to have been revised.
The company publishes no rupee price of its own, so any rupee figure you see for it, including ours, is somebody's conversion on some particular day.
The service commitment attached to the airline seat at the end is not published as a monetary amount by anybody.
Nothing above is the whole cost of becoming a pilot. Our pilot training cost in India page has the full stack from the medicals to the type rating, and CPL course fees in India puts this school's licence figure next to the rest of the market. This school also appears on our IndiGo cadet pilot programme page, where the airline side of the same route is set out.
Mostly because the flying is bought abroad in dollars rather than in India in rupees. The cheapest published IndiGo route in our data flies you at an Indian airfield instead.
It is what a lender will ask for. A published schedule lets you arrange finance against real due dates instead of against a single large number, and this is the only route in this directory that publishes one in full.
No. The dollar figure is the price. Ours is what it converted to on the day we checked, which is why it is labelled Reported rather than Published.