Hyderabad: Airlines might be on a cost-cutting binge but not everyone connected with skies is going to lose jobs! In fact, the skies are literally opening up with huge job opportunities for skilled technicians.With the country’s first foreign-owned airport maintenance facility to take off from the third quarter of next year in the city,...
Indore based recently opened New Flight Services Pilot Training Academy announces the availability of it’s flight training of two new courses- Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 type-rating and in collaboration with Aviation link Asia Training center, Philippines. Certified Flight Instructor program at Berlin also is conducted. New Flight services also provide training for CPL...
Mumbai: Jet Airways may not have funds to pay oil bills and airport charges, but it sure seems to have easy money when it comes to foreign pilots. Despite a surplus of Indian Boeing 737 commanders, the airline will be adding two more expatriate pilots to its crew this week.“The airline made two foreign...
New Delhi: Scores of cadet pilots have been shown the door as airlines renege on their placement promises. With passenger loads falling, expansion is no longer a priority and the demand for cockpit crew is taking a knocking.A whole bunch of just-trained pilots have their licence ready and a loan to pay back but...
New Delhi: With cash-strapped Indian airlines running to the government for a bailout, many young pilots in these companies are wondering why expensive expat fliers, whose salary has gone up substantially due to the rupee falling against the dollar, are being retained by the firms in deep financial trouble.“These expats are a precious drain...
Hyderabad: The Central Training Establishment (CTE), a premier Aviation Training Centre of Air India, Hyderabad, held its Golden Jubilee celebrations here today.CTE Executive Director (Operations and Training) Captain Ashok Raj formally inaugurated the celebrations and congratulated all the employees for putting in the best of their efforts to ensure the organisation’s success and growth.Ashok...
Bangalore: The worst is not yet over for people working in the aviation industry in India, which is witnessing its worst slump. Kingfisher Airlines, which earlier forced the trainee pilots to accept a pay cut, has now targeted the senior pilots. The airline has asked the pilots to take a 20 per cent paycut...
Mumbai: Jet Airways hired two American pilots for Rs 5 lakh a month on October 23, a move that has the airlines’ Indian pilots, facing salary cuts, up in arms.The airline says that it has hired these pilots to fly ATRs — turbo-trop planes, small aircraft used on short-haul flights because there was a...
Jammu: At a time when the aviation sector is passing through its critical phase due to slump in the global markets, the Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training, here has got four of its students selected in one of the reputed international airlines.The management of the institute said the candidates managed their entry into...
Mumbai: With Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines struggling to combat rising costs, employees of both airlines are now scouting for jobs in competing airlines, including low-cost carriers like SpiceJet and GoAir.“We have started sending our resumes to the low-cost carriers as our take-home salaries will be almost at par with lowcost carriers once Jet’s...