{"id":475582,"date":"2022-03-15T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475582"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:45:47","slug":"only-87-foreign-pilots-working-in-india-right-now-mos-civil-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/only-87-foreign-pilots-working-in-india-right-now-mos-civil-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 87 foreign pilots working in India right now: MoS Civil Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 87 of the approximately 9,000 pilots working with Indian carriers are from foreign countries, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 404 foreign pilots were working in India as on June 10, 2019, according to government data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no shortage of pilots in the country. However, there is a shortage of commanders on certain types of aircraft and the same is being managed by utilising foreign pilots by issuing Foreign Aircrew Temporary Authorization(FATA),&#8221; Singh said on Monday in his written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 87 of the approximately 9,000 pilots working with Indian carriers are from foreign countries, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Monday. A total of 404 foreign pilots were working in India as on June 10, 2019, according to government data. &#8220;There is no shortage of pilots in the country. However, there is a shortage of commanders on certain types of aircraft and the same is being managed by utilising foreign pilots by issuing Foreign Aircrew Temporary Authorization(FATA),&#8221; Singh said on Monday in his written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.<\/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-475582","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\/475582","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=475582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}