{"id":390081,"date":"2020-12-18T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390081"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:32:04","slug":"boeing-hires-up-to-160-pilots-for-airlines-to-help-relaunch-737-max-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-hires-up-to-160-pilots-for-airlines-to-help-relaunch-737-max-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing hires up to 160 pilots for airlines to help relaunch 737 MAX: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (Reuters) &#8211; Boeing Co is hiring up to 160 pilots to be embedded at airlines in its latest bid to ensure its 737 MAX has a smooth comeback after a 20-month safety ban, according to a recruitment document seen by Reuters and people familiar with the move. <\/p>\n<p>The new &#8220;Global Engagement Pilots&#8221; will act as instructors or cockpit observers on 35-day assignments at an equivalent annual salary that could reach $200,000, for a total potential cost of $32 million, one of the people said. <\/p>\n<p>The unusual hiring spree is part of a Boeing campaign to protect the re-launch of its redesigned 737 MAX from operational glitches and rebuild trust following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a total of 346 people. <\/p>\n<p>The strategy also includes 24\/7 surveillance of 737 MAX flights globally and talking points for flight attendants to reassure passengers who express concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (Reuters) &#8211; Boeing Co is hiring up to 160 pilots to be embedded at airlines in its latest bid to ensure its 737 MAX has a smooth comeback after a 20-month safety ban, according to a recruitment document seen by Reuters and people familiar with the move. The new &#8220;Global Engagement Pilots&#8221; will act as instructors or cockpit observers on 35-day assignments at an equivalent annual salary that could reach $200,000, for a total potential cost of $32 million, one of the people said. The unusual hiring spree is part of a Boeing campaign to protect the re-launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390081","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}