{"id":727,"date":"2008-08-05T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=727"},"modified":"2008-08-05T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T07:52:00","slug":"cadets-in-lurch-as-airline-issues-sack-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/08\/cadets-in-lurch-as-airline-issues-sack-notices.html","title":{"rendered":"Cadets in lurch as airline issues sack notices"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi:<\/span> Aspiring pilots who feel that cadet pilot programmes <\/a>of airlines are a surefire way of getting a job may need to do a rethink.
Recently, SpiceJet issued termination notices to all cadets training in the US for a Commercial Pilot’s License (CPL). Those undergoing training after selection have also been given a week’s notice to look elsewhere. This, after each cadet forked out a hefty Rs 25 lakh. Some even took loans to pay for the training. Admits Capt Jati Dhillon, EVP, Flight Operations, SpiceJet, “Yes, we’ve issued termination notices to the cadets and a week’s notice to trainees. We’ll try to get them positions in other airlines. Anyway, the cadets were given no guarantee that they would be absorbed.”
This cadet programme by SpiceJet<\/a> was started in November 2006 and suspended one-and-a-half years later. Some 120 cadets were chosen, but only six or seven have been absorbed by the airline. The airline tied up with United Aviation Training (UAT)<\/a>, a Gurgaon-based pilot training academy, to give them ground classes and flying training in Sabena Airline Training Centre <\/a>in Arizona and in Canada.
Though cadet pilot programmes were started with the intention of churning out a regular stream of pilots for the airline, with a glut of co-pilots, many airlines have been forced to rethink. The hike in fuel prices and its subsequent impact on expansion plans added to their woes.
Sources say SpiceJet’s cadet programme<\/a> was ill-timed. “The company should have foreseen how many pilots it needed,” says a source who didn’t want to be identified. It initially had a projection of 23 planes by March 2008 which meant it needed 138 co-pilots (six per plane). But as luck would have it, it’s flying only 15 planes now.
When asked about UAT’s tie-up with SpiceJet, Maj Gen I S Kahai, CEO, says, “The cadet programme is in abeyance now. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start again.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
Kingfisher too had started<\/a> a cadet programme but it was disbanded, admits its spokesman.
Surprisingly, IndiGo too has started<\/a> a cadet programme. “It’ll begin generating graduates in 2009-summer,” says Bruce Ashby, CEO. Asked if there was a job guarantee, Ashby says no.
05\/08\/08 Shobha John\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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