{"id":614153,"date":"2023-11-01T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=614153"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:08:37","slug":"rare-verbal-spat-air-india-akasa-air-ceos-exchange-barbs-over-poaching-of-pilots-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rare-verbal-spat-air-india-akasa-air-ceos-exchange-barbs-over-poaching-of-pilots-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare verbal spat! Air India &amp; Akasa Air CEOs exchange barbs over poaching of pilots: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOs of Air India and Akasa Air have engaged in a private exchange of barbs over pilot recruitment, with Akasa accusing its rival of rule violations, according to a Reuters report. Air India on its part has said that any collusion to curb job switches is against the competition law.<\/p>\n<p>This dispute, as revealed in a September 21 letter seen by Reuters, underscores the intensifying competition in India&#8217;s aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>The resurgence of air travel post-pandemic and a surge in aircraft orders have resulted in a shortage of pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOs of Air India and Akasa Air have engaged in a private exchange of barbs over pilot recruitment, with Akasa accusing its rival of rule violations, according to a Reuters report. Air India on its part has said that any collusion to curb job switches is against the competition law. This dispute, as revealed in a September 21 letter seen by Reuters, underscores the intensifying competition in India&#8217;s aviation sector. The resurgence of air travel post-pandemic and a surge in aircraft orders have resulted in a shortage of pilots.<\/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-614153","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\/614153","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=614153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}