Jobs in India

[bafanguy]

Looking for a little adventure ? www.flykingfisher.com for a start up in India for all you A320 & 737 folks.

 

[Flywrite]

Isnt a kingfisher a species of bird that dives at great speed into water to catch fish?

Not exactly the best name for an airline if so...

 

[Cpt. Underpants]

You guys should be "flocking" to this job...it's backed by a brewery, no less!

And those Indian girls...mmm mmm good.

 

[superrav]

India's airline business is exploding...1 billion people..i can only imagine what its going to be like in 10 years..

 

[vikaero]

Its a new airline starting up with 4 320's and an additional 8 to join within a year or so. It is owned by the parent company of "Kingfisher" beer owned by Mallya group of industries. Yes Kingfiher is a rather colorful bird as mentioned in an earlier post.

Now as far as getting a job... Good luck. Unless they need expat captains there is no chance.. and anyway in that case i dont exactly see guys flocking to India after leaving their jobs here in the US. They probably will get guys from Indian Airlines or other Indians flying in the middle east who have the 320 time. As far as others who have the time... well you have to go to india get a medical and then convert to the "esteemed" indian ALTP license.... which includes a cr@*load of nonsense... in the day of GPS etc... you will have to learn the sextant principles.......

Now if you are Indian and have 250 hours of flight time ..... let me not forget including 25 hours multi... of which 15 can be in a sim ...Heck you qualify as a gear puller.

So.. in closing ... i shall say the circus known as "Aviation" in India continues.

 

[TheDogsBollocks]

Why be a pilot, there are plenty of jobs going as a customer service rep for a multitude of companies that have outsourced their jobs to India!

 

[MED]

Air Stinky is hiring?

 

[CaptSeth]

And those Indian girls...mmm mmm good.

I like curry as much as the next guy, maybe I should give it a shot?

 

[bafanguy]

Thought it was just an interesting job posting. It looks like India's attempt to be like SWA in the early days.


My wife has seen their airplanes someplace in Europe already.

I've heard a guy talk about licensing in India...sounded bad. I remember his saying you had to know how close a garbage dump could be to an airport. Something about birds... What a pilot could do about this or why he should carry that number around in his head is a bit of a mystery.

 

[Franky4Fingers]

Requirements for first officer:

Co-Pilots:

Current medical, CPL, FRTO, COP/RTR, IR on multi-engine and minimum of 25 hrs on multi-engine aircraft (10 hrs could be completed on an approved multi-engine simulator).

Eligible candidates will be called for written test followed by an interview.
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[Vik]

You will need to convert your licenses to Indian CPL/ATP/etc and like someone mentioned its a b*tch. Think learning star charts and crap Columbus prolly used.

I have to travel to India for 1 month at a time for work and on my last trip Air India's Express airline wanted to hire 52 Capt and 52 FOs on the 737. No minimum hour reqs on the FO position.

The pay isn't bad, but converting my FAA Commercial to the Indian is not going to be worth it at all.

 

[414Flyer]

I think all the Indian airlines are or are about to be scrambling for pilots. It would be be hard for them to use up the available supply pretty quickly.

Kingfisher does not have the airplanes yet. I have already lost a copilot this summer to Jet Airways, and I think the rest have interviews with other airlines. These are often 400 hr pilots that are going to the airlines.

Jet Airways, Air India Express, are actively recruiting for and testing pilots.

The license conversion here is a royal pain. Its a far different process. Sure you take a test, but you are never given a score, and if the grader says you fail, thats it, no recourse and you cant demand an explanation.

All you can do is take the test again at a later date.

5 days (I hope) and counting, until my return

 

[IFLYSIU]

jobs in India

I am just curious to know if anyone else is still following the increase of pilot hiring going on in the Indian aviation sector. I have been reading a lot of articles regarding specific airlines expansion plans and the airlines poaching practices for pilots. It seems that they are providing fairly high compensation to draw instructors away from there academies, local and foreign.

Does anyone on this board fly in that country? (Just curious) I have a flury of "NRI" questions.

Feel free to add your perspectives.

Thanks.

 

[Vik]

well, i just finished spending 2 months there and in the Times of India was a spread about how crappy the flying schools are in India, and how the demand of nearly 2000 pilots over the next 10 years is not going to be met locally.

The problem w/ India is the conversion of your certs. It is the only reason I am not working there right now. The compensation even for regular pilots is very good.

The last time I visited airindia.com, they were having walk-in interviews for pilots at their training center in Mumbai.

 

[hawg2hawk]

The compensation even for regular pilots is very good.

What is "very good" in US dollars?