{"id":713,"date":"2008-07-13T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=713"},"modified":"2008-07-13T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:53:00","slug":"jet-deccan-may-spike-plans-for-flight-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/07\/jet-deccan-may-spike-plans-for-flight-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Jet, Deccan may spike plans for flight schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai:<\/span> The turbulence in the domestic aviation industry has forced two leading airlines to rethink plans to set up training academies for pilots and aircraft engineers.<br \/>Jet Airways (India) Ltd and Deccan Aviation Ltd, which runs Simplifly Deccan, had planned the facilities to fill gaps in their staffing needs when they were expanding operations.<br \/>But with domestic airlines facing a combined loss of $2 billion (Rs8,540 crore) in fiscal 2009, because of spiralling jet fuel prices and excess flights in the local market, these airlines are trimming both staff size and routes.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Three years back, India needed an additional 2,000 pilots by 2010. Now, I would imagine the country is in excess of pilots,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said an aviation expert, who has been tracking the industry for about two decades.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are more pilots than necessary now because airlines are grounding their flights and rationalizing routes. Already, domestic airlines have asked their foreign pilots to go back,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added.<br \/>Chief executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer said over phone from Europe, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is too premature to comment about that. There are various other things deciding the fate of this project.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>Jet Airways, which had consolidated losses of Rs653.87 crore in fiscal 2008, was in talks with Brussels-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfa.be\">Sabena Flight Academy<\/a> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/09\/jet-mulls-pilot-training-academy-at.html\">possible tie-up<\/a>, and was scouting for land in Mumbai and some southern cities to set up a facility for training about 200 candidates a year.<br \/>Deccan Aviation, which was taken over last year by Kingfisher Airlines Ltd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owner UB Group, had planned to establish a residential training centre at Bangalore by December 2007, at an estimated cost of Rs65 crore.<br \/>Private training institutes not run by airlines claim they are faring better.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153More candidates are enrolling with our academy, irrespective of the change in the scene,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said S.M.A. Salam, director (training) with Yash Air Ltd, an aviation training centre based in Indore. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Though there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no dramatic growth in the number of aspiring pilots, there is no slippage either,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">12\/07\/08 P. R. Sanjai\/Livemint<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The turbulence in the domestic aviation industry has forced two leading airlines to rethink plans to set up training<\/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-713","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\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}