{"id":1761,"date":"2013-03-17T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2013-03-17T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:17:43","slug":"entry-of-airasia-etihad-offers-fresh-cheer-for-unemployed-pilots-cabin-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2013\/03\/entry-of-airasia-etihad-offers-fresh-cheer-for-unemployed-pilots-cabin-crews.html","title":{"rendered":"Entry of AirAsia, Etihad offers fresh cheer for unemployed pilots, cabin crews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, Rohit Verma got a pilot&#8217;s licence and a type rating that allows him to fly Airbus 320 aircraft after spending Rs 33 lakh. The 20-something pilot is still waiting for his first job.<br \/>\nVerma is one among an estimated 4,000 unemployed pilots who now see a glimmer of hope with the proposed entry of Malaysian carrier AirAsia, an impending joint venture between Gulf carrier Etihad and Jet Airways as well as plans of other airlines to add aircraft.<br \/>\nAccording to the aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation ( DGCA), there are 11,200 CPL-holders in the country, of which a major chunk is unemployed. Although at one time there was an acute shortage of trained commanders, which prompted domestic airlines to hire expat pilots in droves, their number has halved to a little over 300 over the past couple of years.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">17\/03\/13 Anindya Upadhyay\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/transportation\/airlines-\/-aviation\/job-market-entry-of-airasia-etihad-offers-fresh-cheer-for-unemployed-pilots-cabin-crews\/articleshow\/19007100.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, Rohit Verma got a pilot&#8217;s licence and a type rating that allows him to fly Airbus 320<\/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-1761","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\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}