{"id":270163,"date":"2019-04-22T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270163"},"modified":"2019-04-22T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:05:39","slug":"air-india-can-hire-jet-airways-co-pilots-not-costly-captains-ipg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-can-hire-jet-airways-co-pilots-not-costly-captains-ipg\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India can hire Jet Airways&#8217; co-pilots, not &#8216;costly Captains&#8217;: IPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI:The Indian Pilots&#8217; Guild (IPG), one of Air India pilots&#8217; union, on Saturday urged the national carrier&#8217;s management to hire just Boeing 777 (B-777) rated co-pilots on short-term contracts instead of hiring Captains who come at a high cost.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Director, Operations of Air India, the IPG, referring to information about the airline planning to hire B-777 rated Captains and co-pilots on contract basis, said it will be a brutal waste of money when the company is facing a tough financial situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently the Boeing 777 fleet has approximately 219 Captains and 110 First Officers. The total numbers are adequate with the fleet average at 70 hours (per month).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI:The Indian Pilots&#8217; Guild (IPG), one of Air India pilots&#8217; union, on Saturday urged the national carrier&#8217;s management to hire just Boeing 777 (B-777) rated co-pilots on short-term contracts instead of hiring Captains who come at a high cost. In a letter to the Director, Operations of Air India, the IPG, referring to information about the airline planning to hire B-777 rated Captains and co-pilots on contract basis, said it will be a brutal waste of money when the company is facing a tough financial situation. &#8220;Currently the Boeing 777 fleet has approximately 219 Captains and 110 First Officers. The [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270163","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=270163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}