{"id":94,"date":"2007-03-18T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-03-18T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T09:09:00","slug":"indian-air-carriers-need-to-add-5000-pilots-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/03\/indian-air-carriers-need-to-add-5000-pilots-in-5-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian Air carriers need to add 5,000 pilots in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> The Indian aviation industry is besieged with a crippling problem of acute shortage of pilots which could jeopardise its multi million dollar expansion programmes.<br \/>&#8220;The total number of additional aircraft in the next five years is estimated at 500, for which an additional 5,000 pilots would be required,&#8221; aviation ministry sources told<br \/>Currently, 2,940 pilots are employed as against the requirement of 3,160 pilots, leaving a shortfall of around seven per cent, they added.<br \/>They cited that though Indian Airlines has no shortage of pilots, Air India has a shortfall of 118 pilots.<br \/>The government was planning to hike seats in the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uraan Academy to 100 from the present 40, sources said.<br \/>Besides, the government was finalising plans to set up a world-class training academy at Gondia in Maharashtra while permitting Air India to recruit graduates in science and engineering as cadet pilots.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">18\/03\/07 Zee News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian aviation industry is besieged with a crippling problem of acute shortage of pilots which could jeopardise<\/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-94","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}