AirAsia flooded with CVs, and it’s not just KF pilots angling for jobs

While it was always expected that pilots from the grounded Kingfisher Airlines would flood AirAsia India with CVs, aviation experts are surprised to find pilots from other airlines also making a beeline to join the yet-to-belaunched airline.

With the government allowing foreign direct investment of up to 49 per cent in domestic airlines, AirAsia, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, announced its Indian low-cost subsidiary on February 19 this year. The airline is a 49:30:21 joint venture between AirAsia, Tata Sons, and leading investor Arun Bhatia.

Mumbai Mirror has learnt that AirAsia India have received job applications from almost 400 pilots, of whom 200 are from Kingfisher alone. An aviation source Mirror spoke to said, “We have come to know that around 100 pilots from Air India have also applied, of which around 35 have already appeared for interviews.”
06/06/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror