{"id":543,"date":"2008-02-19T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-02-19T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:20:00","slug":"asian-low-cost-airlines-pushing-up-pilots-pay-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/asian-low-cost-airlines-pushing-up-pilots-pay-official.html","title":{"rendered":"Asian low-cost airlines pushing up pilots&#039; pay: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Singapore:<\/span> The growth of Asian low-cost carriers is helping to drive pilots&#8217; salaries sharply higher, but training is being expanded to meet demand, an industry official said Monday.<br \/>Andrew Herdman, director general of the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines, said the new carriers tended to poach pilots from other airlines rather than train their own people.<br \/>&#8220;They own a large number of aircraft and they need to crew them,&#8221; he told AFP. &#8220;In terms of what they are paying their pilots, they may be low-cost airlines but those are not low-cost pilots.&#8221;<br \/>Herdman was speaking in Singapore on the sidelines of an aviation conference, where International Air Transport Association chief executive Giovanni Bisignani said competition for aircrew was a key challenge.<br \/>A total of 17,000 pilots annually have to trained for the 16,000 new aircraft needed by 2020, Bisignani said.<br \/>Investments were underway for pilot training in-house or through aviation schools, but for now pilot costs were jumping, Herdman said.<br \/>&#8220;We see pilots&#8217; salaries rising quite sharply, particularly in lower cost countries in the region,&#8221; Herdman said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">18\/02\/07 AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: The growth of Asian low-cost carriers is helping to drive pilots&#8217; salaries sharply higher, but training is being expanded<\/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-543","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\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}