{"id":520,"date":"2008-02-09T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-02-09T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T07:09:00","slug":"indian-students-jet-into-south-african-city-as-air-school-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/indian-students-jet-into-south-african-city-as-air-school-takes-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian students jet into South African city as air school takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >B<\/span>hisho airport \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is being upgraded after being earmarked for international flights during the 2010 soccer World Cup \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is soon to be home for aviation students from across the globe.<br \/>The Sudanese government has signed a contract with Port Alfred\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs 43 Air School for the training of 180 pilots and 120 aircraft technicians for three years.<br \/>Transport MEC Thobile Mhlahlo said 19 students from Rwanda arrive in two weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc time, a group from India by August, and a group from Europe next year.<br \/>A Sudanese delegation visited the airport yesterday with representatives of the school and arms manufacturer Denel.<br \/>They were shown progress by the provincial transport department with the airport\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs advanced aviation training school, which will be run by 43 Air School.<br \/>Completion is set for March, said department spokesman Ncedo Kumbaca, adding that South African Airways had expressed interest in the airport and that more companies were coming forward with proposals.<br \/>John Yoh, a member of the Sudanese delegation, said the students would arrive in phases and that 66 would be undergoing training by December.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">07\/02\/08 Dineo Matomela\/The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhisho airport \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is being upgraded after being earmarked for international flights during the 2010 soccer World Cup \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/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-520","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\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}