{"id":423,"date":"2007-12-03T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=423"},"modified":"2007-12-03T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T10:32:00","slug":"pilot-shortage-to-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/12\/pilot-shortage-to-intensify.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilot shortage to intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: If the International Air Transport Association&#8217;s (IATA) latest warning to the world&#8217;s airlines is anything to go by, the industry will soon need 17,000 new pilots annually due to expected growth of the industry and retirements.<br \/> Till recently, this was primarily an Indian problem, where the growth of new carriers and fleet had given rise to a situation where even public sector airlines had begun to eye pilots and crew from overseas.<br \/> This is now however expected to be a global problem, so salaries of pilots in India may have to rise even further, if existing staff and talent is to be retained.<br \/>&#8220;This can severely hit the Indian carriers as expat pilots who have left their countries may prefer to return,&#8221; said a DGCA official, adding that working conditions in India are not particularly enticing.<br \/> A number of expat pilots have also found Indian airports more challenging to work in as incidents that occur on the ground are more common than those in the air. &#8220;We have anticipated this kind of shortage,&#8221; says SpiceJet director Ajay Singh.<br \/> His airline is picking up graduates straight from college, sending them to flying schools in the US and to Emirates in Dubai for their first officer licence.<br \/>Although the DGCA has been trying to get many of them working, only 17 of the 40-odd flying schools are in operational status.<br \/>The ministry had roped in the Aero Club of India to identify a number of private flying schools, several of which had fallen into disuse. 10-12 of these schools are to be given trainer aircraft and some assistance to revive themselves.<br \/>As yet, largely unheard of in India, IATA has been encouraging multi-crew pilot licensing (MPL) training, a subject of great controversy globally. Such training will allow trainees to put in less hours of flying and more in a simulator.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">03\/12\/07 Anjuli Bhargava\/Business Standard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: If the International Air Transport Association&#8217;s (IATA) latest warning to the world&#8217;s airlines is anything to go by,<\/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-423","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\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}