{"id":1514,"date":"2011-10-10T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2011-10-10T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:41:14","slug":"pilots-make-a-beeline-for-indigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/10\/pilots-make-a-beeline-for-indigo.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilots make a beeline for IndiGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Kolkata:<\/span> Four city-based senior pilots and 44 other commanders and co-pilots have quit Air India in the past few months. For most of those who left AI, IndiGo has been the airline of choice as it has the best financial health as well as ontime performance among airlines operating in the country.<br \/>\nWith the carrier set to expand majorly on the international front over the next threefour years as Airbus delivers a new fleet of A-320 aircraft, the company is offering a lucrative bonus of Rs 22-23 lakh to woo pilots with international flying experience.<br \/>\n&#8220;The offer is obviously targeted at ICPA members. The bonus more than adequately takes care of the amount due to pilots,&#8221; said a commander, who is negotiating with another carrier and may resign next month. &#8220;The erstwhile IA pilots are the only ones who don&#8217;t have a fixed pay in the industry,&#8221; he alleged.<br \/>\nThough the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had mandated that pilots serve a six-months notice so that flight operations are not affected, AI has had to issue no objection certificate much sooner.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">09\/10\/11<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/-Pilots-make-a-beeline-for-IndiGo\/articleshow\/10287770.cms \" target=\"_blank\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Four city-based senior pilots and 44 other commanders and co-pilots have quit Air India in the past few months.<\/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-1514","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\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}