{"id":655309,"date":"2025-12-05T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655309"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:29:42","slug":"pilot-bodies-flags-gaps-in-indigos-manpower-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-bodies-flags-gaps-in-indigos-manpower-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot bodies flags gaps in IndiGo\u2019s manpower, planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot groups have alleged that IndiGo\u2019s failure to adequately prepare for the rollout of new flight duty and rest norms for cockpit crew, despite a two-year lead time, is at the core of the large-scale disruption that resulted in cancellation of hundreds of flights for the past few days. <\/p>\n<p>The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) said the airline \u201cinexplicably\u201d adopted a \u201chiring freeze,\u201d resulting in an avoidable manpower crunch. The body has urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) not to approve airlines\u2019 seasonal schedules unless they have sufficient staff to operate services \u201csafely and reliably\u201d under the New Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot groups have alleged that IndiGo\u2019s failure to adequately prepare for the rollout of new flight duty and rest norms for cockpit crew, despite a two-year lead time, is at the core of the large-scale disruption that resulted in cancellation of hundreds of flights for the past few days. The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) said the airline \u201cinexplicably\u201d adopted a \u201chiring freeze,\u201d resulting in an avoidable manpower crunch. The body has urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) not to approve airlines\u2019 seasonal schedules unless they have sufficient staff to operate services \u201csafely and reliably\u201d under the New [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655309","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=655309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}