{"id":213,"date":"2007-07-21T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=213"},"modified":"2007-07-21T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T07:36:00","slug":"kingfisher-wants-expat-cabin-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/07\/kingfisher-wants-expat-cabin-crew.html","title":{"rendered":"Kingfisher wants expat cabin crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> Domestic air travellers will now be flown by a set of expatriate commander and co-pilot, but can they be served by foreign cabin crew as well? The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is grappling with this issue ever since Kingfisher submitted a request for hiring airhostesses and stewards from abroad.<br \/>&#8220;We are still in a dialogue with the airline. Since Kingfisher is currently not flying abroad, it will have to justify its demand,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said a senior DGCA official.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe basic idea is just to provide a world class experience on our flights,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 one official said.<br \/>Sources said Kingfisher could be trying to get some senior foreign cabin crew to train their Indian employees to provide a world class inflight service on the international flights it is hoping to begin soon.<br \/>Language could prove to be the biggest barrier for allowing foreign cabin crew on domestic flights. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc&#8230;The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexpensive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 foreign cabin crew may be deployed only in business class where passengers would be fluent in English,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said an industry insider.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">21\/07\/07 Saurabh Sinha\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Domestic air travellers will now be flown by a set of expatriate commander and co-pilot, but can they<\/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-213","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\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}