{"id":38,"date":"2006-11-30T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-11-30T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T14:59:00","slug":"fat-expat-pilot-salaries-upset-carrier-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2006\/11\/fat-expat-pilot-salaries-upset-carrier-budgets.html","title":{"rendered":"Fat expat pilot salaries upset carrier budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >I<\/span>ndian carriers need pilots, preferably Indian ones. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because their expat counterparts carry a heavy price tag and airlines are feeling the pinch, reports CNBC-TV18.<br \/>For a while Indian carriers were struggling to fill up seats. Now they&#8217;re desperate to fill their cockpits. That&#8217;s because India adds almost half-a-dozen aircraft a month, but doesn&#8217;t have enough pilots.<br \/>India&#8217;s 2,300 pilots fly more than 230 aircrafts. Of these, almost a quarter are expatriates with heavy price tags. So some airlines are considering setting up their own training schools.<br \/>An expat pilot gets USD 20,000  average a month on average &#8211; almost twice as much as an Indian pilot&#8217;s salary. Pilots&#8217; wages comprise 70% of an airline&#8217;s wage bill. So getting rid of expats will save airlines 3-5% of their costs each year. But carriers are optimistic.    <br \/>India needs 400 pilots a year, but produces only about 100.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">29\/11\/06 Moneycontrol.com <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian carriers need pilots, preferably Indian ones. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because their expat counterparts carry a heavy price tag and airlines 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-38","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}