{"id":294928,"date":"2019-10-04T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294928"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:49:38","slug":"aais-disused-airfields-may-be-turned-into-pilot-academies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aais-disused-airfields-may-be-turned-into-pilot-academies\/","title":{"rendered":"AAI\u2019s disused airfields may be turned into pilot academies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has started work on a plan to turn airfields belonging to the staterun Airports Authority of India (AAI), including non-operational ones, into pilot academies to help meet burgeoning demand in India and overseas. India\u2019s pilot shortage means that the country\u2019s fastexpanding carriers have to hire foreign pilots or even cancel flights at times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aviation ministry\u2019s view is that the country has human capital and the plan is to produce enough pilots so that we are able to meet not just India\u2019s demand but also become a pilot supplier to the world,\u201d said a top government official who sought anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has started work on a plan to turn airfields belonging to the staterun Airports Authority of India (AAI), including non-operational ones, into pilot academies to help meet burgeoning demand in India and overseas. India\u2019s pilot shortage means that the country\u2019s fastexpanding carriers have to hire foreign pilots or even cancel flights at times. \u201cThe aviation ministry\u2019s view is that the country has human capital and the plan is to produce enough pilots so that we are able to meet not just India\u2019s demand but also become a pilot supplier to the world,\u201d said a top government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294928","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}