Air India plans to reach out to pilots who had quit
Air India plans to reverse poach senior pilots and commanders, who had switched to other Indian and foreign airlines earlier and on whom the carrier had spent a lot of money to train them. As part of the strategy to hire over 500 pilots, the public sector carrier would also focus on hiring those who had left it in the past for various reasons and moved to other carriers, sources said. The move, which has the "consent" of Air India chairman and MD Ashwani Lohani, is aimed at saving both money and time as these already trained pilots can be deployed for operations immediately, they said. Air India has already offered jobs to 13 pilots it had sacked for participating in a 2-month strike in 2012, sources said. As many as 173 Air India pilots have resigned from the carrier since 2012 till last year. <br/>
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Air India plans to reach out to pilots who had quit
Air India plans to reverse poach senior pilots and commanders, who had switched to other Indian and foreign airlines earlier and on whom the carrier had spent a lot of money to train them. As part of the strategy to hire over 500 pilots, the public sector carrier would also focus on hiring those who had left it in the past for various reasons and moved to other carriers, sources said. The move, which has the "consent" of Air India chairman and MD Ashwani Lohani, is aimed at saving both money and time as these already trained pilots can be deployed for operations immediately, they said. Air India has already offered jobs to 13 pilots it had sacked for participating in a 2-month strike in 2012, sources said. As many as 173 Air India pilots have resigned from the carrier since 2012 till last year. <br/>
