{"id":657194,"date":"2025-12-30T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657194"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:57:25","slug":"where-do-we-get-captains-from-ai-indigo-locked-in-dogfight-for-pilots-amid-fdtl-fallout-joining-bonus-up-to-rs-50-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/where-do-we-get-captains-from-ai-indigo-locked-in-dogfight-for-pilots-amid-fdtl-fallout-joining-bonus-up-to-rs-50-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do we get captains from?\u2019 AI, IndiGo locked in dogfight for pilots amid FDTL fallout; joining bonus up to Rs 50 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Call it the IndiGo schedule collapse and its fallout impact. A clamour has broken out between the budget airline and Air India group over having adequate captains to avoid a repeat of what happened under the new safety-enhancing flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo has had to commit to DGCA about hiring pilots \u2014 it will induct 100 in Jan itself \u2014 and AI has already come out with an ad for getting more aviators on board. But both the airlines are also facing a significant number of captain resignations \u2014 with some leaving one for the other and mostly for joining foreign carriers \u2014 so the hiring is also to ensure they don\u2019t go below their current numbers which has made the scramble more intense that anything seen before in Indian skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Call it the IndiGo schedule collapse and its fallout impact. A clamour has broken out between the budget airline and Air India group over having adequate captains to avoid a repeat of what happened under the new safety-enhancing flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules. IndiGo has had to commit to DGCA about hiring pilots \u2014 it will induct 100 in Jan itself \u2014 and AI has already come out with an ad for getting more aviators on board. But both the airlines are also facing a significant number of captain resignations \u2014 with some leaving one for the [&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-657194","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\/657194","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=657194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}