{"id":1631,"date":"2012-05-14T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2012-05-14T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:15:51","slug":"india-axes-foreign-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2012\/05\/india-axes-foreign-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"India axes foreign pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">T<\/span><\/strong>he Directorate General of Civil Aviation has given airlines a 2013 deadline to phase out expat pilots.<br \/>\nForeign pilots are generally better paid than domestic ones because of the experience they bring. However, Indian airlines are struggling to survive.<br \/>\nThe problem has been exacerbated by the rupee falling to a four-month low against the US dollar.<br \/>\nIndian airlines pay for their fuel and the salaries of foreign pilots in US dollars, so both are proving more costly as the local currency weakens.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">09\/05\/12 Justin Harper<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/offshorefinance\/9254029\/India-axes-foreign-pilots.html  \" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has given airlines a 2013 deadline to phase out expat pilots. Foreign pilots are<\/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-1631","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\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}