{"id":725,"date":"2008-08-04T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-08-04T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T07:01:00","slug":"flight-jobs-may-return-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/08\/flight-jobs-may-return-eventually.html","title":{"rendered":"Flight jobs may return eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Tucson, Arizona<\/span>: Recent years have been good to many flight-training schools in the United States, including the National Pilot Academy, as airlines and other businesses hired pilots.<br \/>But this year, due largely to rising fuel costs and resulting cuts at the airlines, hiring has slowed.<br \/>While air carriers have trimmed back personnel as they face rising fuel costs, this may be a good time for aspiring pilots to head to school, one industry expert says<br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s not an unusual thing to start in a down period,&#8221; said Kit Darby, president of Atlanta-based AIR Inc., a job-resource organization for pilots. That&#8217;s because by the time pilots leave school there may be an upswing in employment, he said.<br \/>So, while some students have started in such down periods, they are not alone in facing the pitfalls of a weak economy.<br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyiata.com\">International Airline Training Academy<\/a>,  just down the road from NPA at Ryan, was held up to scrutiny earlier this year when a group of students said the school falsely promised quick training.<br \/>In February, the group of 10 students from India <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/indian-student-pilots-at-us-local.html\">told the Arizona Daily Star<\/a> they were collectively owed more than $120,000 in tuition refunds from IATA, 6400 S. Aviator Lane, after choosing to end their training. The group asked the school repeatedly for refunds but to no avail.<br \/>In April, IATA <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/04\/international-pilot-academy-at-ryan.html\">filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection<\/a>.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">03\/08\/08 Jack Gillum\/Arizona Daily Star, AZ, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson, Arizona: Recent years have been good to many flight-training schools in the United States, including the National Pilot Academy,<\/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-725","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\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}