{"id":679,"date":"2008-06-08T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=679"},"modified":"2008-06-08T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T09:40:00","slug":"punj-lloyd-to-set-up-pilot-training-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/06\/punj-lloyd-to-set-up-pilot-training-college.html","title":{"rendered":"Punj Lloyd to set up pilot training college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: As part of its plans to expand its aviation business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punjlloyd.com\/\">Punj Lloyd<\/a> is preparing to set up a pilot training school in the country.<br \/>The training college may come up by the end of the current calendar year. &#8220;We are trying to set up a pilot training school in the country. If all goes well, it would be established by the end of the current year,&#8221; Punj Lloyd Chairman Atul Punj told reporters here.<br \/>The college would be set up in association with domestic aircraft maintenance firm <a href=\"http:\/\/airworks.in\">Airworks India<\/a> in which Punj bought 33 per cent last year.<br \/>US-based PE Global Technology Investments had purchased another 33 per cent in Airworks at the same time. It would be a complete academy training both helicopter as well as commercial aeroplane pilots. &#8220;It will be a full blown college providing training for both types of pilots,&#8221; Punj said.<br \/>The academy may come up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hosur\">Hosur<\/a> where Airworks has major aircraft repair and maintenance operations.<br \/>Meanwhile, Punj also has plans to scale up the maintenance and repair business. He would induct two hangers soon at the Hosur facility and has the option to take six more.<br \/>Punj Lloyd, largely known for engineering and construction work in the oil and gas sector, has also qualified to bid for the modernisation projects for the Kolkata and Chennai airports.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">07\/06\/08 Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX\/Trading Markets, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As part of its plans to expand its aviation business, Punj Lloyd is preparing to set up a<\/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-679","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\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}