{"id":260345,"date":"2019-02-21T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260345"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:50:58","slug":"airbus-opens-commercial-pilot-training-centre-in-gurugram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-opens-commercial-pilot-training-centre-in-gurugram\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus opens commercial pilot training centre in Gurugram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Estimating that India will need 25,000 pilots in the next two decades, European aerospace major Airbus has opened a training centre for commercial pilots and maintenance engineers in Gurugram. The training centre has an A320 flight simulator for full-flight simulation, along with programmes on aircraft procedure training, computer-based classroom training, and standard pilot transition training, including an &#8216;upgrade to command&#8217; course. The move comes at a time when some Indian airlines are facing a crippling pilot shortage that has forced them to cancel hundreds of flights.<br \/>\nAnand E Stanley, president and MD of Airbus (India &amp; South Asia) said: \u201cProviding a robust training infrastructure to support our customers\u2019 businesses is a priority for us. One pillar of our customer service mission is proximity to the customer, and another one is safety. In that respect, having a training centre located in the country is proof of our commitment towards both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Estimating that India will need 25,000 pilots in the next two decades, European aerospace major Airbus has opened a training centre for commercial pilots and maintenance engineers in Gurugram. The training centre has an A320 flight simulator for full-flight simulation, along with programmes on aircraft procedure training, computer-based classroom training, and standard pilot transition training, including an &#8216;upgrade to command&#8217; course. The move comes at a time when some Indian airlines are facing a crippling pilot shortage that has forced them to cancel hundreds of flights. Anand E Stanley, president and MD of Airbus (India &amp; South Asia) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}