{"id":655242,"date":"2025-12-05T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655242"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:13:41","slug":"indigos-prolonged-unorthodox-lean-manpower-strategy-caused-current-disruption-pilots-body-fip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigos-prolonged-unorthodox-lean-manpower-strategy-caused-current-disruption-pilots-body-fip\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo&#8217;s prolonged, unorthodox lean manpower strategy caused current disruption: Pilots&#8217; body FIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Pilots&#8217; body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, &#8220;inexplicably&#8221; adopted a &#8220;hiring freeze.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>FIP said it has urged the safety regulator, DGCA, not to approve airlines&#8217; seasonal flight schedules unless they have adequate staff to operate their services &#8220;safely and reliably&#8221; under the New Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Pilots&#8217; body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, &#8220;inexplicably&#8221; adopted a &#8220;hiring freeze.&#8221; FIP said it has urged the safety regulator, DGCA, not to approve airlines&#8217; seasonal flight schedules unless they have adequate staff to operate their services &#8220;safely and reliably&#8221; under the New Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655242","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=655242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}