{"id":466463,"date":"2022-02-05T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466463"},"modified":"2022-02-05T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:32:03","slug":"rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-akasa-airline-will-use-stock-options-to-lure-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-akasa-airline-will-use-stock-options-to-lure-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakesh Jhunjhunwala&#8217;s Akasa airline will use stock options to lure staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Akasa, a new airline backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, plans to offer stock options to attract staff, using a lure more often deployed by technology startups in its bid to gain a foothold in one of the world\u2019s most competitive air-travel markets. <\/p>\n<p>The carrier, which is preparing to start flying in late May, is taking the unusual approach of granting company shares to a bigger pool of top employees, rather than a select group of senior executives, as the aviation industry globally suffers from a talent shortfall. <\/p>\n<p>Airlines have retrenched thousands of workers because of the pandemic and many pilots have quit, either taking early retirement or switching careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Akasa, a new airline backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, plans to offer stock options to attract staff, using a lure more often deployed by technology startups in its bid to gain a foothold in one of the world\u2019s most competitive air-travel markets. The carrier, which is preparing to start flying in late May, is taking the unusual approach of granting company shares to a bigger pool of top employees, rather than a select group of senior executives, as the aviation industry globally suffers from a talent shortfall. Airlines have retrenched thousands of workers because of the pandemic and [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466463","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\/466463","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=466463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}