{"id":561901,"date":"2023-03-13T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561901"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:39:55","slug":"air-india-gets-dgca-nod-for-cross-utilisation-of-wide-body-pilots-same-pilot-allowed-to-fly-b777-787-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-gets-dgca-nod-for-cross-utilisation-of-wide-body-pilots-same-pilot-allowed-to-fly-b777-787-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India gets DGCA nod for cross utilisation of wide-body pilots; same pilot allowed to fly B777, 787 planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/ MUMBAI: Aviation regulator DGCA has approved Air India&#8217;s long-pending request to allow the same pilots to operate two types of Boeing wide-body aircraft, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Air India can train a total of eight designated examiners for operating Boeing 777 and 787 aircraft. Four designated examiners will be trained for operating 777s and another four for flying 787s, a senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-utilisation of existing pilots wherein they will be able to fly two different aircraft will be helpful for the carrier as it embarks on ambitious international expansion plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/ MUMBAI: Aviation regulator DGCA has approved Air India&#8217;s long-pending request to allow the same pilots to operate two types of Boeing wide-body aircraft, according to officials. Initially, Air India can train a total of eight designated examiners for operating Boeing 777 and 787 aircraft. Four designated examiners will be trained for operating 777s and another four for flying 787s, a senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. Cross-utilisation of existing pilots wherein they will be able to fly two different aircraft will be helpful for the carrier as it embarks on ambitious international expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-561901","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\/561901","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}