{"id":914,"date":"2009-03-21T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=914"},"modified":"2009-03-21T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T10:32:00","slug":"paramount-runs-short-of-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/03\/paramount-runs-short-of-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Paramount runs short of pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Chennai:<\/span> Paramount Airways is reportedly running short of pilots with at least a dozen of the foreign pilots, brought in to fly the Embraer aircraft for salaries higher than their Indian counterparts, leaving the company in recent times for various reasons.<br \/>While airport authority sources confirmed that the airline is facing a shortage of pilots, a top Paramount official claimed that the airline has 35 captains and about 65 first officers on its rolls.<br \/>But for an airline that operates to at least 12 destinations with a mandatory requirement of 25 captains, there are only 16 reporting for duty, airport sources said.<br \/>Insiders say the sudden dearth of pilots was due to huge exodus of foreign pilots, who had come from countries like Columbia, Kenya, Venezuela, and parts of America.<br \/>When the airline was launched, there were no Indians trained in flying the Brazilian-made aircraft and the company employed the foreigners for huge salaries _ captains draw Rs nine lakh per month for flying narrow body aircraft and Rs 11 lakh for wide body aircraft.<br \/>Subsequently, Indian pilots were trained and taken in as captains. In the case of first officers, 18 of them recently joined Paramount after coughing up Rs 25 lakh for their training.<br \/>But most of the first officers are yet to clear the exams conducted by DGCA to become captains.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">21\/03\/09 Mamta Todi\/<a style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expressbuzz.com\/edition\/story.aspx?Title=Paramount+runs+short+of+pilots&amp;artid=I4T0CZsJuM4=&amp;SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&amp;MainSectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&amp;SEO=DGCA,+Paramount,+Airways,+Columbia,+Kenya,+Venezue&amp;SectionName=rSY%7C6QYp3kQ=\">ExpressBuzz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Paramount Airways is reportedly running short of pilots with at least a dozen of the foreign pilots, brought in<\/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-914","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\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}