The Aviation Minister,Prafull Patel announced in Rajya Sabha that only 4804 pilots are currently serving the whole Indian Aviation Industry including foreign pilots also. The number of foreign pilots working in India are Go Air – 4 Blue Dart – 7 Alliance Air – 23 Kingfisher Airlines – 139 Jet Airways – 137 Air India
The national carrier Air India will be hiring around 100 pilots for 27 new B-787. The new aircrafts has already been added in the fleet. According to them, out of 100 pilots they will absorb 40 waitlisted pilots which were kept on hold for more than a year. According to a spokemen ,they will send
The national carrier Air India, is facing one more crucial problem along with the major financial crisis.They are falling short of more than 200 cabin crew because of the merger between Air India and Indian Airlines. It is happening because of the incompatibility between regulations of both these airlines.As Air India hires on contractual basis,
The low cost carrier is going to bring 5 new aircrafts this year for their International routes.They need atleast 10 pilots for every aircraft. So they will be needing around 50-60 pilots in all. Currently they have around 25 % foreign pilots , but according to DGCA the last date for them is 31 July,2010,
The President of Indigo Airlines, Mr. Aditya Ghosh has announced that they will be hiring around 100 new pilots . As per DGCA the recruitment will be consisted only of Indian Pilots. Currently they have around 7% foreign pilots , previously this figure was somewhere around 10 %. They are currently working on training of
Yesterday, Aviation Minister Prafull Patel visited Jaipur and announced that the Sanganer Airport is going to expand. The length of the runway is going to be 11,500 feet long ,which is presently 9000 feet. The number of aerobridges is to increase to 10 which are presently 2 only. The capacity of lounge is going to
Now at the Mumbai Airport, Authority is going to develop a new dedicated cargo complex.It is going to be as big as one million tonne capacity and the plan is going to be finalized in next two or three months.It will cater all types of cargo like heavy machines,pharmaceuticals, etc. Latest Aviation News Air Charter
Now the Anti-Hijacking Act of 1982 has been amended and according to it, the hijackers will be given death sentence for any type of hijacking activity. Currently the law defines the life sentence and fine.
On 21st March, a small bomb was found in a Kingfisher flight IT-4731 that arrived form Bangalore to THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. It was a low explosive bomb found in the cargo compartment, it was in the size of a small ball and was wrapped in a newspaper.The Bomb Disposal Squad reached the airport to check the nature
KINGFISHER is going to start 7 new international routes in this summer.The flights will be like New Delhi- London,New Delhi- Hongkong, New Delhi- Bangkok, New Delhi-Dubai,Mumbai -Dubai, Mumbai-Colombo,Mumbai- Bangkok. The first flight is going to from March 28 between New Delhi -London.
