{"id":666,"date":"2008-05-26T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=666"},"modified":"2008-05-26T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T10:24:00","slug":"jetstar-to-recruit-75-foreign-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/05\/jetstar-to-recruit-75-foreign-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Jetstar to recruit 75 foreign pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Sydney<\/span>: Qantas has reportedly secured government approval to employ 75 pilots from off-shore to fly its low-cost Jetstar subsidiary&#8217;s aircraft.<br \/>If it proceeds, it will be the largest-scale hiring of off-shore pilots since the airline pilots strike in Australia 20 years ago.<br \/>The flight crew will be allowed to migrate to Australia under the 457 work visa program.<br \/>The Australian Financial Review reports the move will likely be opposed by unions representing airline workers, but Jetstar says it is necessary to address a chronic pilot shortage in Australia.<br \/>&#8220;We are in a global industry and we should be able to source a global talent pool,&#8221; Jetstar CEO Alan Joyce told the newspaper.<br \/>Jetstar has also recently hired 20 foreign cabin crew on 457 visas and has government approval to hire up to 60 more.<br \/>In a statement released late today (Monday) Qantas confirmed Jetstar was supplementing its &#8220;extensive domestic recruitment for pilots&#8221; by using 457 visas to recruit some pilots from overseas.<br \/>CEO Geoff Dixon, said Jetstar had recruited 200 pilots in Australia since January 2007 and, on average, recruited 15 pilots per month.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In addition, Qantas separately has recruited 170 new pilots this financial year and more than 300 existing Qantas pilots have received upgrade training in the same period,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>Both Qantas and Jetstar were separate airlines with their own individual pilot and training requirements, Dixon said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">26\/05\/08 Aviation Record, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: Qantas has reportedly secured government approval to employ 75 pilots from off-shore to fly its low-cost Jetstar subsidiary&#8217;s aircraft.If<\/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-666","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\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}