Emerging from its shrunken operations of the pandemic years, the Indian aviation industry has directly leapt into a massive fleet expansion mode. But, as much reported, it is staring at a serious paucity of pilots. So glaring is the situation that recently, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia, announced that the government would ease up on Foreign Aircrew Temporary Authorisation (FATA) appointments. Only, the country so starved of pilots is estimated to have over 6,000 unemployed commercial pilot license (CPL) holders.
