{"id":1372,"date":"2011-02-25T02:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2011-02-25T02:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T02:03:41","slug":"airlines-may-need-to-hire-more-staff-under-new-safety-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/02\/airlines-may-need-to-hire-more-staff-under-new-safety-norms.html","title":{"rendered":"Airlines may need to hire more staff under new safety norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">New Delhi:<\/span> Indian carriers may soon have to hire more pilots and crew to comply with a new rule that mandates more rest for flight crew to prevent fatigue, a reason cited for the decade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worst plane crash in India last year that killed 158 people.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will issue the rules and put it up for consultation anytime now. I think it should be applicable in the next three months,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d civil aviation secretary Nasim Zaidi said, adding the new directives will also tighten control over airline managements. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will address a number of issue like rest, sleep inertia, fatigue and airline management issues. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe civil aviation ministry has cleared the proposal this month, he said.<br \/>\nThe plan to reduce pilot fatigue comes after investigations into the fatal crash of Air India Express flight IX-812 in Mangalore on 22 May revealed the flight commander slept through 30% of the flight.<br \/>\nThe move will also raise the cost of running airlines as the carriers have to increase the number of pilots and cabin crew for each aircraft. DGCA is preparing the draft guidelines and the details haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been made public.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">24\/02\/11 Tarun Shukla\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/2011\/02\/23221756\/Airlines-may-need-to-hire-more.html?atype=tp\" target=\"_blank\">Live Mint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian carriers may soon have to hire more pilots and crew to comply with a new rule that<\/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-1372","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\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}