{"id":431616,"date":"2021-08-23T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431616"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:20:45","slug":"no-more-sir-in-air-india-express-in-a-bid-to-make-communication-informal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-more-sir-in-air-india-express-in-a-bid-to-make-communication-informal\/","title":{"rendered":"No more &#8216;Sir&#8217; in Air India Express in a bid to make communication informal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to rejig the power gradient in the cockpit, Air India Express has instructed its first officers to address the pilot-in-command, not as &#8216;Sir&#8217;, but by their first name or simply as &#8216;Captain&#8217;, reported TOI.<\/p>\n<p>The operations circular issued on Friday referred to the October 2018 Trichy accident in which an Air India Express aircraft had a tail strike, then hit a ground-based navigation aid and finally took down the upper portion of the airport boundary wall before it took off for Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to rejig the power gradient in the cockpit, Air India Express has instructed its first officers to address the pilot-in-command, not as &#8216;Sir&#8217;, but by their first name or simply as &#8216;Captain&#8217;, reported TOI. The operations circular issued on Friday referred to the October 2018 Trichy accident in which an Air India Express aircraft had a tail strike, then hit a ground-based navigation aid and finally took down the upper portion of the airport boundary wall before it took off for Dubai.<\/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-431616","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\/431616","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=431616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}