{"id":821,"date":"2008-10-27T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T11:55:00","slug":"jet-set-to-take-2-foreign-pilots-despite-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/10\/jet-set-to-take-2-foreign-pilots-despite-surplus.html","title":{"rendered":"Jet set to take 2 foreign pilots despite surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai:<\/span> Jet Airways may not have funds to pay oil bills and airport charges, but it sure seems to have easy money when it comes to foreign pilots. Despite a surplus of Indian Boeing 737 commanders, the airline will be adding two more expatriate pilots to its crew this week.<br \/>&#8220;The airline made two foreign Boeing 737 commanders go to Delhi on Friday for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) oral exam, which will permit them to fly with a foreign licence in India. These two expatriates can start flying for Jet Airways any day now,&#8221; said a source.<br \/>What is surprising is that the airline has decided to keep the expatriates despite having a surplus of Indian Boeing 737 pilots. &#8220;A number of Indian B 737 commanders are under utilised in Jet Airways. Then again, Jetlite&#8217;s B 737 commanders hardly get enough flying these days and they could have been easily used,&#8221; the source added.<br \/>The costs incurred in hiring a foreign pilot are almost double too. &#8220;A foreign B737 commander is paid Rs 5 lakh a month and then an additional Rs 2 lakh a month goes for his hotel accommodation. An Indian commander, on the other hand, draws Rs 3.6 lakh for the same job,&#8221; the source added. A Jet Airways spokesperson confirmed that the airline will be having two expat B 737 pilots flying from this week.<br \/>When it comes to Boeing 737 aircraft, Jet has about 225 B 737 Indian pilots who have all qualifications to move on to a bigger wide-bodied A 330 aircraft.But the progression has been blocked as the airline has been lax in replacing expats on bigger aircraft with Indians.<br \/>&#8220;Even the few Indian pilots who have managed to get promoted to the A330 get to fly only for 30 hours a month as compared to the 70-80 hours that an expat pilot in Jet Airways gets,&#8221; the source added.<br \/>The salary difference between an Indian pilot and his foreign counterpart is too huge to be ignored. &#8220;An Indian A 330 commander draws a gross salary of Rs 4.90 lakh a month, while a foreign pilot draws Rs 7 lakh (non-taxable) as gross salary,&#8221; the source added.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">27\/10\/08 Manju V\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Jet Airways may not have funds to pay oil bills and airport charges, but it sure seems to have<\/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-821","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\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}