{"id":1046,"date":"2009-10-16T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2009-10-16T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T09:43:00","slug":"4000-licensed-pilots-wait-to-fly-some-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/10\/4000-licensed-pilots-wait-to-fly-some-day.html","title":{"rendered":"4,000 licensed pilots wait to fly some day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >T<\/span>he Unemployed Pilots Welfare Association puts the number of out-of-job CPL holders close to 4,000, even as airlines continue to hire about 1,000 expatriate pilots. India is one of the few countries that allows expat pilots to fly domestic routes.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will meet the Director General of Civil Aviation on Thursday and decide our course of action,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Capt Ashok Arya, association president and former Airports Authority of India official.<br \/>The DGCA has made it mandatory for airlines to phase out expat pilots by 2010, to create openings. But airlines are moving cautiously on this, especially after Jet Airways and Air India were recently grounded due to pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 agitations.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want fresh problems from our expat pilots. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve submitted our phase-out plan and we will stick to it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d an official of a private carrier said, requesting anonymity.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">13\/10\/09 Karan Jakhad\/TopNews.in <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unemployed Pilots Welfare Association puts the number of out-of-job CPL holders close to 4,000, even as airlines continue to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}