{"id":927,"date":"2009-04-13T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=927"},"modified":"2009-04-13T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T11:56:00","slug":"like-ais-flights-its-exam-too-gets-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/04\/like-ais-flights-its-exam-too-gets-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"Like AI&#039;s flights, its exam too gets delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai:<\/span> The written test for picking trainee pilots, conducted by Air India (AI) at Bhavan&#8217;s College, Andheri (west), on Sunday, got delayed by almost an hour. And the reason was extraordinary!<br \/>AI had advertised for 30 trainee pilot posts 45 days ago. More than 1,367 candidates applied for the job. The AI spokesperson told DNA that never before more than 50% candidates had taken the exam. But on Sunday, almost all the applicants turned up.<br \/>Last-minute arrangements had to be made for more seats. More invigilators were called in. This delayed the exam, which started at 12.25 pm instead of the scheduled 11.30 am.<br \/>Sunday&#8217;s incident opened up a paradox: On the one hand, the international aviation sector is facing rough weather with dwindling business and passenger load. On the other, AI is vigorously increasing its fleet.<br \/>The large number of candidates turning up for trainee pilot&#8217;s job is &#8220;bad omen&#8221; for the pilot community, said aviation sources. Some two years ago, thousands of Indian youngsters went abroad, particularly to the US, Canada and Thailand, for commercial pilot course at a time when the industry was flying high. On an average, they will be spending almost Rs30 lakh to complete the training.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">13\/04\/09 Baljeet Parmar\/Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The written test for picking trainee pilots, conducted by Air India (AI) at Bhavan&#8217;s College, Andheri (west), on Sunday,<\/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-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}