Indian students stranded in U.S.

In California, more than 100 Indian students training to be pilots have been left stranded after their Aviation Academy abruptly shut-down. The students have been served with an eviction notice and asked to vacate the Academy premises by Friday (June 27).
The students were reportedly a part of a Commercial Pilot Training Programme, jointly tun by Kingfisher Airlines and American School of Aviation or ASA. Students claimed they paid 46,000 dollars for the programme.
Following which the students were handed a letter of intent by Kingfisher Airlines in India offering them jobs as co-pilots on completing training with ASA and getting their CPL Licence and subsequent conversion from the DGCA.
However, the school suddenly suspended its flight training last month, claiming their school was being restructured. Students were later told the school had been shut down for defaulting in payments over fuel and insurance bills.
Mikhail Dmello, a student of the Aviation Academy expressed himself and said, “There have been a lot of false promises and we are helpless and have no where to go. We are looking forward to external support from the Indian Embassy and the Indian government. We spoke to Kingfisher and they said that they are looking into the case and are trying their level best to resolve issues.”
(Here is the link to some old news stories on American School of Aviation from Aviation India archives).
26/06/08 Times Now.tv