{"id":813,"date":"2008-10-24T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-10-24T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:19:00","slug":"jet-looks-at-cutting-pilots%e2%80%99-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/10\/jet-looks-at-cutting-pilots%e2%80%99-salaries.html","title":{"rendered":"Jet looks at cutting pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> From being a priceless professional in short supply till some months back, highly-paid pilots are now becoming one of the major areas o<br \/>f cost cutting for India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loss-making airlines. Close on the heels of Kingfisher, Jet Airways is looking at cutting salaries of its pilots by about 20% from next month. Apart from cutting salaries, Indian carriers have now started sending the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more expensive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d foreign pilots back.<br \/>The expats\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 number has fallen from 944 in February, 2008, to less than 900 now. In past three years, foreign pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 numbers were rising almost every month due to a shortage of trained fliers here.<br \/>A senior Jet Airways pilot said the management has begun sounding out pilots about this move before making a formal announcement in coming days. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are being told of the financial difficulty the company is facing and that we all need to tighten our belt to helps the company survive this tough time. Anyway the market is so tight that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no option but to accept a reduced pay for noe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said a pilot. Jet has about 800 pilots with salaries ranging from Rs 80,000 to Rs 3.5 lakh.<br \/>A senior Jet official said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have not taken a final decision as yet. But the senior people, including pilots, in the company may have a cut in their pay package. So people are anticipating something. What and how much is that, is not yet finalised.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After the fire and hire fiasco of 1,900 cabin crew staffers, the airline is clearly handling its HR issues very sensitively.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">24\/10\/08 Saurabh Sinha\/Economic Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: From being a priceless professional in short supply till some months back, highly-paid pilots are now becoming one<\/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-813","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\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}