{"id":528418,"date":"2022-10-11T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T03:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528418"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T04:09:30","slug":"amid-expanding-fleet-vistara-looks-to-hire-airasia-pilots-on-deputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-expanding-fleet-vistara-looks-to-hire-airasia-pilots-on-deputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid expanding fleet, Vistara looks to hire AirAsia pilots on deputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full service carrier Vistara is looking to rope in pilots on deputation from budget airline AirAsia India to ensure adequate crew for its expanding fleet of A320 planes, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Both airlines are part of the Tata group and the latest move indicates efforts to have more synergy as well as optimal use of manpower among group carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Tata group also owns Air India and Air India Express.<\/p>\n<p>Vistara &#8212; a joint venture between the Tatas and Singapore Airlines &#8212; has a fleet of 53 aircraft. These include 41 A320s and five A321s. The airline is planning to increase the fleet to 70 planes by December 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full service carrier Vistara is looking to rope in pilots on deputation from budget airline AirAsia India to ensure adequate crew for its expanding fleet of A320 planes, according to sources. Both airlines are part of the Tata group and the latest move indicates efforts to have more synergy as well as optimal use of manpower among group carriers. Tata group also owns Air India and Air India Express. Vistara &#8212; a joint venture between the Tatas and Singapore Airlines &#8212; has a fleet of 53 aircraft. These include 41 A320s and five A321s. The airline is planning to increase [&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-528418","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\/528418","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=528418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}