{"id":905,"date":"2009-03-10T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-03-10T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:20:00","slug":"more-jobs-on-horizon-for-indian-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/03\/more-jobs-on-horizon-for-indian-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"More jobs on horizon for Indian pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi: <\/span>Jobless pilots in the country have a reason to cheer. After the Directorate General of Civil Aviation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (DGCA) directive to replace foreign pilots with their Indian counterparts by July 31 2010, commercial pilot licence (CPL) holders will be in demand.<br \/>At present, there are around 1,000 foreign pilots working for different airlines in India. Also Air India is on a hiring spree. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year, we plan to hire 30-40 pilots every three months and to induct 30 new aircraft (including the replacements) during the fiscal 2009-2010,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeetendra Bhargava, executive director, corporate communications, Air India.<br \/>The directive has also favoured flying schools. Acumen School of Pilot Training (ASPT) claims the number of applications in past two months have gone up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In past two months, we have got more than 45 applications,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chandni Chawla, ASPT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business head. Even the flying schools abroad are also chasing in on this. Recently, Pacific Aviation Academy from British Columbia held a workshop in the Capital and received a huge response.<br \/>But DGCA has a word of caution. Charan Das, Deputy Director General, DGCA, said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect a big turnaround unless airline companies get in the expansion mode, which is not happening as of now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">10\/03\/09 Vimal Joshi\/Hindustan Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Jobless pilots in the country have a reason to cheer. After the Directorate General of Civil Aviation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (DGCA)<\/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-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}