{"id":576,"date":"2008-03-05T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-03-05T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:50:00","slug":"govt-tells-airlines-not-to-hire-foreign-co-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/govt-tells-airlines-not-to-hire-foreign-co-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt tells airlines not to hire foreign co-pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: The government has asked domestic carriers not to hire foreign co-pilots as there is already a glut of Indian co-pilots, with airlines getting anywhere between 20 to 40 applications for each position.<br \/>In a meeting with airlines, the aviation ministry said it could understand that India still has a shortage of trained commanders\/captains and airlines may have to hire expats. But as far as co-pilots go, airlines need to select desi ones.<br \/>At present, India has 944 foreign pilots &#8211; 810 commanders and 134 co-pilots.<br \/>Hiring a fresh Indian co-pilot means that airlines have to first get a type rating for the aircraft they will have to operate. This means sending commercial pilot licence holders abroad for training on simulator of planes like an A-320 or Boeing 737, something that takes a few months and costs anywhere up to Rs 7 lakh.<br \/>A fresh CPL holder can join an airline as co-pilot and then get type-rating (training to fly a certain aircraft). Once a type-rated pilot flies for between 1,500 and 2,500 hours, he or she becomes a commander\/captain. At each level, the salary jumps from &#8211; Rs 60,000-80,000; Rs 1-1.5 lakh and Rs 2-2.5 lakh.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">05\/03\/08 Saurabh Sinha\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government has asked domestic carriers not to hire foreign co-pilots as there is already a glut of<\/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-576","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\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}