Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Deregistered Sydney flying school back in business
A Sydney flying school deregistered by the NSW education watchdog after a ''critical'' breach of standards is training commercial pilots again.
Aerospace Aviation won an appeal against its deregistration for a range of issues including the use of unqualified trainers. It has many overseas students.
The venture had also been censured internationally and within Australia over allegations of exploitation and mistreatment of Indian students who had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition fees but failed to receive sufficient flying time and access to facilities and instructors. One family said it paid $43,500 for a 52-week course and received far less than was promised.
Sue Davis, the co-owner of Aerospace Aviation with her husband, Zane, said they felt relieved and vindicated that the NSW Government's Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board had set aside its previous decision after the appeal.
Over the next year the school must provide to the Education Department monthly reports about staffing and equipment and details of each student's planned and actual flying time.
The school has voluntarily appointed a director of learning and compliance and provided a full-year timetable to clarify student expectations.
30/10/09 Heath Gilmore/The Sydney Morning Herald/brisbane times.com
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PermaLink Aerospace Aviation won an appeal against its deregistration for a range of issues including the use of unqualified trainers. It has many overseas students.
The venture had also been censured internationally and within Australia over allegations of exploitation and mistreatment of Indian students who had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition fees but failed to receive sufficient flying time and access to facilities and instructors. One family said it paid $43,500 for a 52-week course and received far less than was promised.
Sue Davis, the co-owner of Aerospace Aviation with her husband, Zane, said they felt relieved and vindicated that the NSW Government's Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board had set aside its previous decision after the appeal.
Over the next year the school must provide to the Education Department monthly reports about staffing and equipment and details of each student's planned and actual flying time.
The school has voluntarily appointed a director of learning and compliance and provided a full-year timetable to clarify student expectations.
30/10/09 Heath Gilmore/The Sydney Morning Herald/brisbane times.com
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Flying club runs into air pocket as Juhu runway works get delayed
Mumbai: The delay in recarpeting the Juhu airport runway has hit the Bombay Flying Club and a few air maintenance works in the complex. The recarpeting work started in April and is yet to be completed.
Juhu is mainly used by smaller planes. Work on recarpeting the 1.2 km runway will cost Rs 4.6 crore.
Mihir Bhagwati, president of the Bombay Flying Club, said: "Since there is congestion in Mumbai, we operate our planes from Dhule. The problem now is that we cannot get our planes for maintenance. Besides, we can't fly our planes from here.''
A senior official said it will be a problem to get their aircraft to Juhu if needed. Airport Authority of India sources said the runway was at a low level and always got waterlogged.
The Juhu airport is surrounded by slums on the northern and western side. The drains passing along the airport were clogged during the monsoon. Often, the waterlogging damaged the tarmac and runway.
The Airport Authority of India, which manages the runway, has decided to raise the runway.
30/10/09 Yogesh Naik/Times of India
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PermaLink Juhu is mainly used by smaller planes. Work on recarpeting the 1.2 km runway will cost Rs 4.6 crore.
Mihir Bhagwati, president of the Bombay Flying Club, said: "Since there is congestion in Mumbai, we operate our planes from Dhule. The problem now is that we cannot get our planes for maintenance. Besides, we can't fly our planes from here.''
A senior official said it will be a problem to get their aircraft to Juhu if needed. Airport Authority of India sources said the runway was at a low level and always got waterlogged.
The Juhu airport is surrounded by slums on the northern and western side. The drains passing along the airport were clogged during the monsoon. Often, the waterlogging damaged the tarmac and runway.
The Airport Authority of India, which manages the runway, has decided to raise the runway.
30/10/09 Yogesh Naik/Times of India
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Surat gets flying academy, youth's aspirations new wings
Surat: After years of wait, it will now be possible for the local youth to have their share of the skies over the city. A flying club, which has become operational at the well-equipped Magdalla airport, has given wings to the aspiration of the local youth who want to make a career in flying. It will be possible for them to get commercial and private pilot licences in the city itself with Rainbow Flying Club Academy (RFCA) becoming operational after approval by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The academy, owned by the son of former Union textile minister Shankersinh Waghela, has three Cessna four-seater aircraft. At least 15 students have already enrolled for flying training here.
"Our students are from across the country including a couple of them who belong to Surat city," Bharatsinh, the academy promoter, said. "The number of students will increase after Diwali. We had asked many of those who had enrolled at the academy to join after the holidays," he added.
A flying instructor said, "The flying requirement for private pilot licence (PPL) is 50 hours and 200 hours for a commercial pilot licence (CPL). Regular daily flying can help a student to complete the commercial pilot's training in 200 days."
Other than practical training, a student pilot has to clear theory papers also for different licences for which the preparation will done at the academy under the instructions of qualified instructors.
21/10/09 Himanshu Bhatt/Times of India
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PermaLink The academy, owned by the son of former Union textile minister Shankersinh Waghela, has three Cessna four-seater aircraft. At least 15 students have already enrolled for flying training here.
"Our students are from across the country including a couple of them who belong to Surat city," Bharatsinh, the academy promoter, said. "The number of students will increase after Diwali. We had asked many of those who had enrolled at the academy to join after the holidays," he added.
A flying instructor said, "The flying requirement for private pilot licence (PPL) is 50 hours and 200 hours for a commercial pilot licence (CPL). Regular daily flying can help a student to complete the commercial pilot's training in 200 days."
Other than practical training, a student pilot has to clear theory papers also for different licences for which the preparation will done at the academy under the instructions of qualified instructors.
21/10/09 Himanshu Bhatt/Times of India
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Family of Indian student died in 2007 crash sues former flight school
West Palm Beach: The family of an 18-year-old man from India who was killed in a 2007 airplane crash west of Boynton Beach has sued the now-defunct aviation company that he hoped would train him to be a commercial pilot.
In the lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, the New Delhi family of Arjun Chhikara claim the negligence of Kemper Aviation and various other companies was responsible for the crash that also left Chhikara's flight instructor, Anders Selberg, dead.
Kemper closed its flight school last year after a spate of crashes that claimed eight lives, including that of Jeffrey Rozelle, the school's co-owner.
26/10/09 Jane Musgrave/Palm Beach Post, USA
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PermaLink In the lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, the New Delhi family of Arjun Chhikara claim the negligence of Kemper Aviation and various other companies was responsible for the crash that also left Chhikara's flight instructor, Anders Selberg, dead.
Kemper closed its flight school last year after a spate of crashes that claimed eight lives, including that of Jeffrey Rozelle, the school's co-owner.
26/10/09 Jane Musgrave/Palm Beach Post, USA
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
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2 flying schools to be set up in Salem
Salem:Two flying schools are all set to establish branches here and the hitherto dormant Salem airport is gearing up for some hectic activity in the days to come.
Disclosing this to Express on Friday, a top official from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said that Bangalore-based Kohinoor Flying Academy and the International Flying School — a transnational organisation have bagged the tender for establishing flying schools including Salem.
The source noted that the two flying schools propose to have five training aircrafts each. Varied versions of Cessnas and Piper aircraft would be brought in a ph ased manner.
24/10/09 G Rajasekaran/ExpressBuzz
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PermaLink Disclosing this to Express on Friday, a top official from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said that Bangalore-based Kohinoor Flying Academy and the International Flying School — a transnational organisation have bagged the tender for establishing flying schools including Salem.
The source noted that the two flying schools propose to have five training aircrafts each. Varied versions of Cessnas and Piper aircraft would be brought in a ph ased manner.
24/10/09 G Rajasekaran/ExpressBuzz
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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It's a turbulent flight for cabin crew
Mumbai: Some of the cabin crew members of domestic airlines that DNA spoke to said the rigorous regime in the air and the daily discrimination they face takes a huge toll, not only physically but also psychologically.They say the recent mid-air scuffle between pilots and two members of the cabin crew was an ugly manifestation of their working conditions.
An air hostess with a leading local airline, who did not want to be named, said they have to dance to not just the commander's but to everyone's tune on a flight, which can get very stressful.
"The commanders are quite particular about how their food or coffee is served," she said."They are very demanding. If we are unable to deliver they start harassing us by suddenly asking questions on flight safety."
Tiffs between pilots and air hostesses are not always trivial, and cases of serious sexual harassment at the workplace are rampant in the industry, though most of the times they are swept under the carpet or settled through a compromise between the victim (usually an air hostess) and the culprit (pilots).
Sanjay Lazar, general secretary of the Air India Cabin Crew Association (AICC), said female cabin crew are especially vulnerable to harassment and discrimination on board an aircraft.He said that after Komal, an Air India air hostess, filed a complaint of molestation by senior pilots at a police station in Delhi, there has been a spurt in the number of complaints filed by female cabin crew members.
After the Komal midair episode, the National Commission for Women has decided to issue guidelines for better working conditions for air hostesses. Prakash Mirpuri, Kingfisher Airlines spokesperson, said his airline has created an internal system to address the grievances of the cabin crew.
21/10/09 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis
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PermaLink An air hostess with a leading local airline, who did not want to be named, said they have to dance to not just the commander's but to everyone's tune on a flight, which can get very stressful.
"The commanders are quite particular about how their food or coffee is served," she said."They are very demanding. If we are unable to deliver they start harassing us by suddenly asking questions on flight safety."
Tiffs between pilots and air hostesses are not always trivial, and cases of serious sexual harassment at the workplace are rampant in the industry, though most of the times they are swept under the carpet or settled through a compromise between the victim (usually an air hostess) and the culprit (pilots).
Sanjay Lazar, general secretary of the Air India Cabin Crew Association (AICC), said female cabin crew are especially vulnerable to harassment and discrimination on board an aircraft.He said that after Komal, an Air India air hostess, filed a complaint of molestation by senior pilots at a police station in Delhi, there has been a spurt in the number of complaints filed by female cabin crew members.
After the Komal midair episode, the National Commission for Women has decided to issue guidelines for better working conditions for air hostesses. Prakash Mirpuri, Kingfisher Airlines spokesperson, said his airline has created an internal system to address the grievances of the cabin crew.
21/10/09 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis
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Cabin pressure reaches new high
An increasing number of air passengers are finding themselves in hot water and even behind bars as a result of bizarre behaviour from drunkenly abusing cabin crew, sparking bomb scares and starting fights with fellow travellers.
But what causes seemingly ordinary people to lose the plot once the seatbelt sign is lit?
Dr Roghy McCarthy is Dubai-based psychologist who helps train cabin crew on how to deal with irate cust-omers as well as treating potential passengers with a fear of flying.
She said: "Unfortunately, some people do not respect the career of the ladies and men who are cabin crew and they take advantage of them. Some people think that because they paid for their seat, they own the crew as well and that can make them have a bad attitude. Also, some people think their holiday starts as soon as they step on the plane and that normal rules of behaviour don't apply."
One Dubai-based air stewardess agrees that a feeling of superiority is often at the root of many incidents of air rage. "They think you are their servants and tell you do this and do that," she said. "Once a man in business class threw his pillow in my face because he didn't get his headset straight away."
This month has seen several high-profile examples of cabin fever hit the headlines.
And Air Indian crew on a flight from Sharjah to Delhi showed even the staff are not immune to fraying tempers after a scuffle broke out between the pilot and his crew.
McCarthy also says anxiety is a catalyst for aggression often compounded by alcohol.
"Some people have a fear of flying but cover it up and sometimes use alcohol to do this," she said.
The cabin crew member told 7DAYS that they are trained to keep an eye out for people who might be too keen on a tipple. Cabin crew undergo intense training on how to deal with difficult passengers verbally but are also taught to protect themselves.
20/10/09 Zawya
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PermaLink But what causes seemingly ordinary people to lose the plot once the seatbelt sign is lit?
Dr Roghy McCarthy is Dubai-based psychologist who helps train cabin crew on how to deal with irate cust-omers as well as treating potential passengers with a fear of flying.
She said: "Unfortunately, some people do not respect the career of the ladies and men who are cabin crew and they take advantage of them. Some people think that because they paid for their seat, they own the crew as well and that can make them have a bad attitude. Also, some people think their holiday starts as soon as they step on the plane and that normal rules of behaviour don't apply."
One Dubai-based air stewardess agrees that a feeling of superiority is often at the root of many incidents of air rage. "They think you are their servants and tell you do this and do that," she said. "Once a man in business class threw his pillow in my face because he didn't get his headset straight away."
This month has seen several high-profile examples of cabin fever hit the headlines.
And Air Indian crew on a flight from Sharjah to Delhi showed even the staff are not immune to fraying tempers after a scuffle broke out between the pilot and his crew.
McCarthy also says anxiety is a catalyst for aggression often compounded by alcohol.
"Some people have a fear of flying but cover it up and sometimes use alcohol to do this," she said.
The cabin crew member told 7DAYS that they are trained to keep an eye out for people who might be too keen on a tipple. Cabin crew undergo intense training on how to deal with difficult passengers verbally but are also taught to protect themselves.
20/10/09 Zawya
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Friday, October 16, 2009
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Aerospace majors tap Indian talent
Bangalore: Indian aviation expertise is now no longer confined to the cockpit and the crew. Domestic talent is now being tapped for the design and system integration of aircraft as well. Aerospace majors such as Airbus and Boeing have formed partnerships with the IISc, IITs and IIM-Bangalore to develop their next-generation air-birds, including A380s, A350s and the 787 Dreamliner.
Chief executive officer of Airbus Engineering Centre India (AECI) Eugen Welte told ET that their company had decided to set up operations in India to source talent and develop competency here. “Of the 130 people recruited here, 120 are engineers and the company will increase the number to 400 by 2012,” he said.
“As part of our internationalisation strategy, we will offshore 20% of our work by 2020, and India will get a big share of this followed by Russia and China”, said Mr Welte.
“ We will be going to IISc and IITs for campus recruitment by December-end or early January to recruit more hands. We are also sending engineers to Europe to gain more expertise from teams there,” said Joellle Willaume, head of the engineering division at AECI.
Boeing, which started its Indian lab in Bangalore with 30 engineers, said that this lab was the third of its kind outside the US where engineers work on multiple projects involving advanced design, autonomous and network-centric systems, spacecraft designs and new structure and material technologies.Boeing has stated that another 100 engineers will collaborate with its various projects being carried out with premier Indian academia and research and development (R&D) institutions.
Mr Welte of Airbus said that due to availability of this talent pool, India can play a major role for future projects such as building planes which are 30% more efficient than today’s craft.
16/10/09 Peerzada Abrar/Economic Times
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PermaLink Chief executive officer of Airbus Engineering Centre India (AECI) Eugen Welte told ET that their company had decided to set up operations in India to source talent and develop competency here. “Of the 130 people recruited here, 120 are engineers and the company will increase the number to 400 by 2012,” he said.
“As part of our internationalisation strategy, we will offshore 20% of our work by 2020, and India will get a big share of this followed by Russia and China”, said Mr Welte.
“ We will be going to IISc and IITs for campus recruitment by December-end or early January to recruit more hands. We are also sending engineers to Europe to gain more expertise from teams there,” said Joellle Willaume, head of the engineering division at AECI.
Boeing, which started its Indian lab in Bangalore with 30 engineers, said that this lab was the third of its kind outside the US where engineers work on multiple projects involving advanced design, autonomous and network-centric systems, spacecraft designs and new structure and material technologies.Boeing has stated that another 100 engineers will collaborate with its various projects being carried out with premier Indian academia and research and development (R&D) institutions.
Mr Welte of Airbus said that due to availability of this talent pool, India can play a major role for future projects such as building planes which are 30% more efficient than today’s craft.
16/10/09 Peerzada Abrar/Economic Times
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4,000 licensed pilots wait to fly some day
The Unemployed Pilots Welfare Association puts the number of out-of-job CPL holders close to 4,000, even as airlines continue to hire about 1,000 expatriate pilots. India is one of the few countries that allows expat pilots to fly domestic routes.
“We will meet the Director General of Civil Aviation on Thursday and decide our course of action,” said Capt Ashok Arya, association president and former Airports Authority of India official.
The DGCA has made it mandatory for airlines to phase out expat pilots by 2010, to create openings. But airlines are moving cautiously on this, especially after Jet Airways and Air India were recently grounded due to pilots’ agitations.
“We don’t want fresh problems from our expat pilots. We’ve submitted our phase-out plan and we will stick to it,” an official of a private carrier said, requesting anonymity.
13/10/09 Karan Jakhad/TopNews.in
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PermaLink “We will meet the Director General of Civil Aviation on Thursday and decide our course of action,” said Capt Ashok Arya, association president and former Airports Authority of India official.
The DGCA has made it mandatory for airlines to phase out expat pilots by 2010, to create openings. But airlines are moving cautiously on this, especially after Jet Airways and Air India were recently grounded due to pilots’ agitations.
“We don’t want fresh problems from our expat pilots. We’ve submitted our phase-out plan and we will stick to it,” an official of a private carrier said, requesting anonymity.
13/10/09 Karan Jakhad/TopNews.in
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Airline staffers' dreams come crashing down
New Delhi: Sanjay Wadhwa’s dream had the right ingredients, only his timing was wrong.
He wanted to be a pilot, like many of his generation who grew up in the Delhi of the early nineties. East-West Airlines had appeared on the horizon, Jet Airways was being launched and many other names such as ModiLuft dotted the private sector take-off path. And they all needed plenty of pilots, many times more than the handful that Indian flying schools churned out every year.
A decade and Rs 25 lakh later, Wadhwa is today a pilot without a flight plan. The 30-year-old is knocking on the doors of an aviation industry that is sinking steady with accumulated annual losses of Rs 10,000 crore.
Wadhwa is just one among the 4,000-odd unemployed commercial pilot licence (CPL) holders in India. Tariff wars, reckless expansion and a global financial slowdown that forced passengers to defer travel plans have grounded this once-sunrise sector where layoffs and employee strikes are the order of the day.
Wadhwa and his ilk now pin hopes on a government diktat to airliners to replace all foreign pilots - who make up 15-20% of all working pilots in India - by June 2010.
For airhostesses like Aditi Khedkar (name changed), fewer flights mean a change in the nature of duty. The 24-year-old Mumbai girl, employed with Kingfisher Airlines for a year, was told in August 2009 that she was being shifted to ground duty. And she quit.
India's aviation sector, with 3 players operating full-service carriers and around 7 no-frill airlines, is harvesting the seeds of a doom it sowed during the boom years.
In the four years leading up to 2008, passenger traffic jumped by 25% every year, mainly thanks to a price war among carriers that was triggered by the entry of Air Deccan. The crew hiring peaked somewhere around 2007 and it continued till mid-2008 when Frankfinn alone placed 6,000 in cabin crew, ground staff, catering customer care et al in different airlines.
14/10/09 Shreya Biswas & Mahima Puri/Economic Times
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PermaLink He wanted to be a pilot, like many of his generation who grew up in the Delhi of the early nineties. East-West Airlines had appeared on the horizon, Jet Airways was being launched and many other names such as ModiLuft dotted the private sector take-off path. And they all needed plenty of pilots, many times more than the handful that Indian flying schools churned out every year.
A decade and Rs 25 lakh later, Wadhwa is today a pilot without a flight plan. The 30-year-old is knocking on the doors of an aviation industry that is sinking steady with accumulated annual losses of Rs 10,000 crore.
Wadhwa is just one among the 4,000-odd unemployed commercial pilot licence (CPL) holders in India. Tariff wars, reckless expansion and a global financial slowdown that forced passengers to defer travel plans have grounded this once-sunrise sector where layoffs and employee strikes are the order of the day.
Wadhwa and his ilk now pin hopes on a government diktat to airliners to replace all foreign pilots - who make up 15-20% of all working pilots in India - by June 2010.
For airhostesses like Aditi Khedkar (name changed), fewer flights mean a change in the nature of duty. The 24-year-old Mumbai girl, employed with Kingfisher Airlines for a year, was told in August 2009 that she was being shifted to ground duty. And she quit.
India's aviation sector, with 3 players operating full-service carriers and around 7 no-frill airlines, is harvesting the seeds of a doom it sowed during the boom years.
In the four years leading up to 2008, passenger traffic jumped by 25% every year, mainly thanks to a price war among carriers that was triggered by the entry of Air Deccan. The crew hiring peaked somewhere around 2007 and it continued till mid-2008 when Frankfinn alone placed 6,000 in cabin crew, ground staff, catering customer care et al in different airlines.
14/10/09 Shreya Biswas & Mahima Puri/Economic Times
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
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IAF to increase pilot recruitment to meet shortage
New Delhi: To bridge the pilot shortage it faces at present, the IAF has increased the number of recruits in its pilot training institution to fill the gaps when future inductions begin, Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said today.
"At the present moment, there is shortage (of pilots). But it is not alarming. Plans (to meet the shortfall) is already existing and they have been reactivated and energised," he said here.
The pilots training institutions, which were hitherto admitting about 190 or 200 pilots annually, has recently increased the intake to 260, he added.
09/10/09 Press Trust of India
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PermaLink "At the present moment, there is shortage (of pilots). But it is not alarming. Plans (to meet the shortfall) is already existing and they have been reactivated and energised," he said here.
The pilots training institutions, which were hitherto admitting about 190 or 200 pilots annually, has recently increased the intake to 260, he added.
09/10/09 Press Trust of India
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AI’s salary cut talks may fuel expat pilot exodus
New Delhi: Air India has begun an exercise to cut salary packages handed to its foreign pilots. It expects a large number of pilots not to accept lower remunerations, and thus leave.
The exercise will help the carrier meet a requirement, imposed by the directorate- general of civil aviation (DGCA) on all domestic airlines, to phase out all foreign pilots by July 31 next year.
“We have to phase out expatriate pilots by next year. The renegotiation will help us follow the DGCA norm and save operational costs as well,” Arvind Jadhav, Air India chairman, told Financial Chronicle.
The negotiations are not directly with the pilots but with 16 recruitment agencies, such as Rishworth and Next Generation, that have placed foreign pilots with the carrier.
The foreign pilots, numbering about 250, only operate flights on international routes and those of Alliance Air and Air India Express. They do not handle domestic flights of what was Indian Airlines before it was combined with Air India. They get paid about $13,500 a month, besides perks.
The recruitment agencies admit that the renegotiation will lead to a mass exit of foreign pilots.
08/10/09 Parul Chhaparia/mydigitalfc.com
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PermaLink The exercise will help the carrier meet a requirement, imposed by the directorate- general of civil aviation (DGCA) on all domestic airlines, to phase out all foreign pilots by July 31 next year.
“We have to phase out expatriate pilots by next year. The renegotiation will help us follow the DGCA norm and save operational costs as well,” Arvind Jadhav, Air India chairman, told Financial Chronicle.
The negotiations are not directly with the pilots but with 16 recruitment agencies, such as Rishworth and Next Generation, that have placed foreign pilots with the carrier.
The foreign pilots, numbering about 250, only operate flights on international routes and those of Alliance Air and Air India Express. They do not handle domestic flights of what was Indian Airlines before it was combined with Air India. They get paid about $13,500 a month, besides perks.
The recruitment agencies admit that the renegotiation will lead to a mass exit of foreign pilots.
08/10/09 Parul Chhaparia/mydigitalfc.com
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AME licence examination: admitted candidates list revised
The list of admitted candidates for October 2009 session of AME licence examination has been revised. The revised list is at the DGCA site.
Find it here:
Rejected Candidates List
The exams are to be conducted on 6th and 7th October 2009 at various centers in India.
DGCA informs that the examination of students who were enrolled in July 2008 and with Computer Number 08050173 onwards, will be conducted at a date, which will be announced later.
05/10/09 DGCA
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PermaLink Find it here:
Rejected Candidates List
The exams are to be conducted on 6th and 7th October 2009 at various centers in India.
DGCA informs that the examination of students who were enrolled in July 2008 and with Computer Number 08050173 onwards, will be conducted at a date, which will be announced later.
05/10/09 DGCA
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Pvt airlines try to poach AI's striking pilots, unsuccessfully
New Delhi: Air India is lucky that none of its pilots flew away during the recent five-day standoff between the management and senior pilots. As it turns out, some private airlines had approached the nearly 200 agitating executive pilots of the national carrier with job offers. “Private carriers tried to lure as many as 60 executive pilots of Air India while they were in confrontation with the management,” said an Air India official, who did not wish to be identified.
The danger is not over yet. India’s private airlines have to replace nearly 900 foreign pilots, including 686 seniors, by July next, the deadline set by the government to phase out expat pilots. While hundreds of junior pilots in India are looking for jobs, there is a shortage of senior flyers at commander level.
“It is difficult for the industry to produce the required number of pilots of that experience,” says Ankur Bhatia, managing director of Amadeus India, a technology service provider to travel and tourism industry. According to him, the country’s airlines will require 1,200 pilots at commanding officer level over the next year when the industry is expected to grow 15%. The obvious poaching ground will be Air India.
03/10/09 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times
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PermaLink The danger is not over yet. India’s private airlines have to replace nearly 900 foreign pilots, including 686 seniors, by July next, the deadline set by the government to phase out expat pilots. While hundreds of junior pilots in India are looking for jobs, there is a shortage of senior flyers at commander level.
“It is difficult for the industry to produce the required number of pilots of that experience,” says Ankur Bhatia, managing director of Amadeus India, a technology service provider to travel and tourism industry. According to him, the country’s airlines will require 1,200 pilots at commanding officer level over the next year when the industry is expected to grow 15%. The obvious poaching ground will be Air India.
03/10/09 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times
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Friday, October 02, 2009
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4,000 pilots waiting in the wings
New Delhi: According to Capt Ashok Arya, president of the newly formed Unemployed Pilots Welfare Association (UPWA), there are around 4,000 unemployed commercial pilots waiting for jobs in India and their number was only going up due to global financial meltdown.
“Flying is a niche segment. In fact, the number of employed pilots, including expatriates, is just around 5,000. Perhaps the “sick” pilots of Jet Airways and Air India, who recently skipped work, holding their respective airlines and passengers to ransom, need to know the plight of these 4,000 trained jobless pilots, some of whom have now come together under the banner of the UPWA to lend voice to their demands,” he said.
While in India commercial flying training comes at a cost of Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 per hour, taking the cost of training to around Rs 25 lakh, in flying clubs of the USA, the UK and Canada, each flying hour costs much more, taking the training cost up to Rs 40 lakh.
“To get a commercial pilot licence (CPL), an individual has to spend Rs 30 to Rs 40 lakh. For this, many parents have mortgaged their houses and so many have taken loans,” Arya said.
To overcome the shortage of captains during the boom time, the retirement age of pilots was extended from 60 to 65 years and the contracts of expat (expatriate) pilots extended.
What these youngsters were asking for was the termination of expat pilots’ contracts so that they could be accommodated; besides reduction in retirement age of pilots from 65 to 60 years and appointment of pilots through the UPSC so as to ensure fair selection, Arya said.
01/10/09 Vibha Sharma/The Tribune
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PermaLink “Flying is a niche segment. In fact, the number of employed pilots, including expatriates, is just around 5,000. Perhaps the “sick” pilots of Jet Airways and Air India, who recently skipped work, holding their respective airlines and passengers to ransom, need to know the plight of these 4,000 trained jobless pilots, some of whom have now come together under the banner of the UPWA to lend voice to their demands,” he said.
While in India commercial flying training comes at a cost of Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 per hour, taking the cost of training to around Rs 25 lakh, in flying clubs of the USA, the UK and Canada, each flying hour costs much more, taking the training cost up to Rs 40 lakh.
“To get a commercial pilot licence (CPL), an individual has to spend Rs 30 to Rs 40 lakh. For this, many parents have mortgaged their houses and so many have taken loans,” Arya said.
To overcome the shortage of captains during the boom time, the retirement age of pilots was extended from 60 to 65 years and the contracts of expat (expatriate) pilots extended.
What these youngsters were asking for was the termination of expat pilots’ contracts so that they could be accommodated; besides reduction in retirement age of pilots from 65 to 60 years and appointment of pilots through the UPSC so as to ensure fair selection, Arya said.
01/10/09 Vibha Sharma/The Tribune
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Emirates and Etihad Airways start hiring again
Two UAE carriers - EmiratesEmirates and Etihad AirwaysEtihad AirwaysLoading... - have started their recruitment drives again after a period of consolidation and a hiring freeze, owing to the global economic slowdown, according to a report by Flight International, an aviation magazine.
Both the carriers had frozen headcounts in order to control costs in the wake of significant declines in yield brought in by the downturn.
' President Tim Clark was quoted by Flight International as saying that the "economic meltdown" has resulted in "possibly a three- to five-year paradigm shift in the way yields have dropped".
The carrier, which employs 27,000 people (including divisions that support other parts of the group), ceased recruiting in February/March this year. Flight International quoted Clark as saying says that with "growth, in terms of aircraft induction, continuing apace the lines crossed in September and we're recruiting 494 cabin crew between now and February".
He added that flightcrew hiring has also restarted.
Etihad's Chief Executive Officer James Hogan on the other hand, said: "The challenge all year has been yield. We're seeing yields in some sectors pushed down to 2006-7 levels." He was quoted as saying this in a report. Etihad, meanwhile, is adding 11 single- and twin-aisle aircraft during the 2009 calendar year, but then enters a period of consolidation with only four additions in 2010 and four in 2011, as per the report, with deliveries beginning in 2012 of the 100 aircraft ordered at last year's Farnborough air show.
01/10/09 Shweta Jaina Emirates Business 24-7/Zawya
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PermaLink Both the carriers had frozen headcounts in order to control costs in the wake of significant declines in yield brought in by the downturn.
' President Tim Clark was quoted by Flight International as saying that the "economic meltdown" has resulted in "possibly a three- to five-year paradigm shift in the way yields have dropped".
The carrier, which employs 27,000 people (including divisions that support other parts of the group), ceased recruiting in February/March this year. Flight International quoted Clark as saying says that with "growth, in terms of aircraft induction, continuing apace the lines crossed in September and we're recruiting 494 cabin crew between now and February".
He added that flightcrew hiring has also restarted.
Etihad's Chief Executive Officer James Hogan on the other hand, said: "The challenge all year has been yield. We're seeing yields in some sectors pushed down to 2006-7 levels." He was quoted as saying this in a report. Etihad, meanwhile, is adding 11 single- and twin-aisle aircraft during the 2009 calendar year, but then enters a period of consolidation with only four additions in 2010 and four in 2011, as per the report, with deliveries beginning in 2012 of the 100 aircraft ordered at last year's Farnborough air show.
01/10/09 Shweta Jaina Emirates Business 24-7/Zawya
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Pilots Special Written Examination on Oct 15
Here is a public notice issued by DGCA :
Pilots Special Written Examination will be conducted on 15th October 2009. Applicants desirous of appearing in this special examination should submit their applications to CEO by 6th October 2009. Only those applicants who meet the eligibility requirements as per CAR Section 7 Series ‘B’ Part I may apply for the special examination.
01/10/09 DGCA
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PermaLink Pilots Special Written Examination will be conducted on 15th October 2009. Applicants desirous of appearing in this special examination should submit their applications to CEO by 6th October 2009. Only those applicants who meet the eligibility requirements as per CAR Section 7 Series ‘B’ Part I may apply for the special examination.
01/10/09 DGCA
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Cessna releases FAA accepted sport/private pilot training program
Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company, has released its new Cessna Sport/Private Pilot Course to its Cessna Pilot Center network. The training program meets acceptable training standards for private pilot certification under Part 141 by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"This new training program coupled with the anticipated deliveries of Cessna's new light sport aircraft, the 162 Skycatcher, later this year makes this the complete package for anyone who wants to learn to fly," said Tom Aniello, Cessna's vice president of Marketing.
The major advantages of the Cessna Flight Training System are that it's Web-based for maximum customer flexibility, and it incorporates customizable scenarios for maximum instructor flexibility.
The Web-based system keeps track of every aspect of customer training and they can access training materials from any location where they have access to the Internet. And since the program is Web-based, changes and updates can be made instantly, with no replacement materials to distribute.
The Cessna Flight Training System also allows an instructor to customize the program to meet the requirements of the local training environment while not compromising the integrity of the training system.
02/10/09 CharterX
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PermaLink "This new training program coupled with the anticipated deliveries of Cessna's new light sport aircraft, the 162 Skycatcher, later this year makes this the complete package for anyone who wants to learn to fly," said Tom Aniello, Cessna's vice president of Marketing.
The major advantages of the Cessna Flight Training System are that it's Web-based for maximum customer flexibility, and it incorporates customizable scenarios for maximum instructor flexibility.
The Web-based system keeps track of every aspect of customer training and they can access training materials from any location where they have access to the Internet. And since the program is Web-based, changes and updates can be made instantly, with no replacement materials to distribute.
The Cessna Flight Training System also allows an instructor to customize the program to meet the requirements of the local training environment while not compromising the integrity of the training system.
02/10/09 CharterX
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