{"id":1630,"date":"2012-05-06T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2012-05-06T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:26:51","slug":"wannabe-pilots-now-working-in-call-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2012\/05\/wannabe-pilots-now-working-in-call-centres.html","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe pilots now working in call centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Bangalore:<\/span> Lured by the prospect of landing a highly remunerative and glamorous job as a pilot when the domestic aviation industry in India was on a roll, Abhishek decided to pursue a course for a pilot&#8217;s licence.<\/p>\n<p>He joined a flying school in South Africa after raising a bank loan. After having finished the course, he could not get a job with as the recession-hit airline industry has frozen recruitment of pilots. Abhishek has now joined a call centre in Bangalore. With a salary nowhere near that of a pilot, he has no idea how he will repay his loan.<br \/>\nSimilar is the case of Mohammed Waseem, who took a loan of Rs. 25 lakh for a flying course in South Africa. He too has joined a call centre here.<br \/>\nAbhishek and Waseem are among scores of qualified commercial pilots in the country who are yet to find a berth in the aviation industry.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">04\/05\/12 Nagarjun Dwarakanath\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/bangalore\/article3384587.ece  \" target=\"_blank\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: Lured by the prospect of landing a highly remunerative and glamorous job as a pilot when the domestic aviation<\/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-1630","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\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}