{"id":906,"date":"2009-03-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=906"},"modified":"2009-03-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T12:00:00","slug":"want-to-be-a-pilot-all-you-have-to-do-is-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/03\/want-to-be-a-pilot-all-you-have-to-do-is-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"Want to be a pilot? All you have to do is blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Singapore:<\/span> If being a pilot is your dream job, one of Asia&#8217;s fastest-growing budget airlines is seeking staff via an online contest, and no flying experience is necessary.<br \/>In a competition similar to the &#8220;Best Job in the World&#8221; contest to find a caretaker for a tropical Australian island, Malaysian airline AirAsia has launched an online plea for pilots, asking candidates to blog why they should get the job.<br \/>&#8220;So YOU wanna be a pilot? Simple. What do you have to do? Blog. What? That&#8217;s it? Yes, you&#8217;re reading it right. Blog,&#8221; AirAsia said on its <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.airasia.com\">official website<\/a>.<br \/>The airline said 10 finalists will be selected, and they will take part in the first round of AirAsia&#8217;s new pilot intake, which involves spending a day with pilots at the AirAsia Academy.<br \/>Bloggers will only be considered if they meet minimum requirements, which include being aged between 18 and 28, having a good command of English and Bahasa Malaysia and being mentally and physically fit, with good eye sight, the website said.<br \/>The competition runs from April 1 to May 15th.<br \/>In a spoof video blog entry intended to inspire applicants, airline staff list their reasons for wanting to become a pilot.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">13\/03\/09 Reuters\/CIOL.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: If being a pilot is your dream job, one of Asia&#8217;s fastest-growing budget airlines is seeking staff via an<\/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-906","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\/906","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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}