{"id":1814,"date":"2013-06-28T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2013-06-28T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:31:27","slug":"many-a-dream-of-flying-high-has-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2013\/06\/many-a-dream-of-flying-high-has-crashed.html","title":{"rendered":"Many a dream of flying high has crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: With the aviation industry in a recession, hundreds of young men who spent lakhs of rupees to undergo courses to become commercial pilots are unemployed and broke.<br \/>\nA course culminating in a commercial pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence (CPL) could cost upto Rs 30-40 lakh in flying schools in India and abroad and nearly 7,000 pilots are without jobs, as airlines facing increased fuel costs and fewer customers have shed aircraft and routes, and more importantly staff, including pilots.<br \/>\nThat has turned the of many aspiring pilots to dust, landing them in a debt trap, with many landed with huge loans from banks. To get a CPL, aspirants have to put in 250 hours of flying and class hours in a process that can stretch to three years, if not more. While the basic training would cost over Rs 20 lakh, conversion training on larger aircraft like Boeing would cost another Rs 10 lakh or more.<br \/>\nCapt Ashok Arya, an ex-pilot who along with young pilots formed the All India Unemployed Pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association (UPA) told dna: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u009dAbout 7,000 pilots who have commercial flying licenses are currently unemployed. Many young pilots hailing from middle class families have taken huge loans for their training and are unable to repay.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nMany pilots in the association have taken up other jobs, and some have even started their own businesses, Capt Arya says. He laments that the civil aviation ministry wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t doing anything about it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">28\/06\/13 Odeal D&#8217;Souza\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/bangalore\/1854366\/report-many-a-dream-of-flying-high-has-crashed\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: With the aviation industry in a recession, hundreds of young men who spent lakhs of rupees to undergo courses<\/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-1814","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\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}