{"id":657202,"date":"2025-12-30T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657202"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:03:18","slug":"where-do-we-get-captains-from-ai-indigo-locked-in-dogfight-for-pilots-amid-fdtl-fallout-joining-bonus-up-to-rs-50-lakh-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do we get captains from? 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 or 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 &#8211; it&#8217;ll induct 100 in Jan itself &#8211; and AI has already come out with an ad for getting more aviators on board. But both airlines are also facing a significant number of captain resignations &#8211; with some leaving one for the other and mostly for joining foreign carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Call it the IndiGo schedule collapse or 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 &#8211; it&#8217;ll induct 100 in Jan itself &#8211; and AI has already come out with an ad for getting more aviators on board. But both airlines are also facing a significant number of captain resignations &#8211; with some leaving one for the other and [&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-657202","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\/657202","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=657202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}