{"id":962,"date":"2009-06-01T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=962"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:42:00","slug":"no-malpractices-in-trainee-pilots-selection-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/06\/no-malpractices-in-trainee-pilots-selection-air-india.html","title":{"rendered":"No malpractices in trainee pilots selection: Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai: <\/span>Dismissing allegations of nepotism in recruitment of trainee pilots, a senior Air India official on Sunday said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there was no foul play\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the selection process.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The vigilance inquiry has not found any wrong-doing in the selection process of pilots,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the official said. The entire selection process was on merit and no favouritism played any part in it, the official said.<br \/>Air India in February this year had advertised vacancies for trainee pilots and subsequently conducted a written test on April 12, which was followed by psychometric test and personal interviews.<br \/>Based on these tests and simulator\/flight proficiency assessment check, the air-carrier selected 40 trainee pilots for appointment out of the 1,400 candidates who had applied. However, their selection got mired in a controversy following allegations of favouritism, forcing the then AI chairman and managing director Mr Bharat Bhushan to put the appointments on hold and order a vigilance enquiry.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">31\/05\/09 PTI\/The Hindu <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Dismissing allegations of nepotism in recruitment of trainee pilots, a senior Air India official on Sunday said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there was<\/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-962","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\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}