Action was initiated against the pilots after a complaint from the cabin crew regarding an unauthorised female passenger entering the cockpit of a Delhi-Leh flight last week.
After thousands of pilots were laid off or decided to retire in the face of last year's Covid induced economic crisis, airlines are aggressively trying to rehire staff.
Flying Training Organisations are being set up across Karnataka, Maharashtra, MP and Assam to prevent aspiring pilots from having to receive training abroad.
Statistically, that sounds sensible. But aviation safety isn’t about averages. It needs to be built around the edge cases, where pilots need to work together to solve a problem.
National carrier Air India lost five pilots, Vistara two. IndiGo was the worst hit with seven deaths. Airline employees blame management for delayed vaccination.
Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association cites climbing Covid cases in India, says breathalyser tests could increase risk for airline crews, notes they should be treated as frontline workers.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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