{"id":1986,"date":"2015-08-03T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2015-08-05T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T22:42:46","slug":"number-of-expat-pilots-going-down-in-india-mahesh-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2015\/08\/number-of-expat-pilots-going-down-in-india-mahesh-sharma.html","title":{"rendered":"Number of expat pilots going down in India: Mahesh Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The number of expat pilots in the country has decreased over the year with domestic carriers promoting nearly 1,000 co-pilots since 2012, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma informed Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, a total of 942 co-pilots from across 12 airlines was promoted to the senior pilot&#8217;s position between January 1, 2012 and July 28 this year.<\/p>\n<p>While a total of 217 co-pilots were upgraded in 2012, the domestic carriers brought 288 first officers to the commander&#8217;s position on the plane in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Another 268 co-pilots were promoted to senior pilot&#8217;s position in 214, he said, adding till July this year as many as 169 co-pilots had joined the pilot&#8217;s seat on the aircraft.<br \/>\n03\/08\/15 PTI\/<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/number-of-expat-pilots-going-down-in-india-mahesh-sharma\/articleshow\/48334698.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The number of expat pilots in the country has decreased over the year with domestic carriers promoting nearly<\/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":[35,21],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expat-pilots","category-pilot-jobs","tag-expat-pilots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}