{"id":455,"date":"2007-12-19T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=455"},"modified":"2007-12-19T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T07:48:00","slug":"new-us-law-may-worsen-indian-pilot-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/12\/new-us-law-may-worsen-indian-pilot-shortage.html","title":{"rendered":"New US law may worsen Indian pilot shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai:<\/span> A new US <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/12\/bush-signs-pilot-retirement-age-act.html\">federal law passed<\/a> mid-December may make it difficult for airline companies in India to recruit retired expatriate pilots to meet growing shortages.<br \/>The new law passed by the US government and called <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h4343eh.txt.pdf\">Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act<\/a> allows both the pilot and co-pilot on a domestic flight to be up to the age of 65 years.<br \/>The earlier cut-off age was 60 years, which made it easier for Indian carriers to hire US pilots since commercial pilots in India can fly till the age of 65.<br \/>Airlines employ over 800 foreign pilots, out of 2,500 pilots in India. About 5 per cent of them are above 60 years and from the US. But the US is increasingly being seen as a major source for experienced commanders given an estimated requirement for over 4,500 pilots in the next five years in India.<br \/>&#8220;The new law will make sourcing of the pilots from the US difficult for us now,&#8221; admitted Air India executive director Jitender Bhargava.<br \/>Air India has about 800 pilots and of these 117 are foreign. The airline did not provide the number of US pilots, but Bhargava said the number was not significant.<br \/>Sources in Jet Airways said 100 of its 700 pilots are foreign and 15 of them are retired pilots from the US. <br \/>When asked how far the change in the US law will impact, Director General of Civil Aviation Kanu Gohain merely said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will have to wait and watch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>For airlines in India the timing of the new regulation may be a problem. All of them are already short of pilots to command new- generation airliners like the Boeing 777s and the wide-bodied Airbus A330s that airlines ply on their international routes.<br \/>Domestic airlines can approach other sources for pilots from Europe, Brazil and other Scandinavian countries. But communication and <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/12\/no-english-no-licence-for-pilots.html\">language<\/a> can be barrier.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">18\/12\/07 Manisha Singhal\/Business Standard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: A new US federal law passed mid-December may make it difficult for airline companies in India to recruit retired<\/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-455","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\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}