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?

 

[IFLYSIU]

Strictly looking at numbers only, I read that they are dishing out incentives of 75,000- 100,000 R's, local Indian currency, per month to persuade the local instructors to leave there post. Ok... with the use of a trusty conversion calculator that is equivalent to about 27K here in the US. I am not definite on an actual salary information regarding an FO slot from one of these LCC's or government subsidized airlines. This could just be some sort of signing bonus event. I am still researching!

Based on my experiences, as well as my relatives, that would be considered quite a bit in terms of Buying Power in India. My parent's use the term live like a KING. You know what I mean if you traveled over there.

Peace.

 

[hawg2hawk]

Strictly looking at numbers only, I read that they are dishing out incentives of 75,000- 100,000 R's, local Indian currency, per month to persuade the local instructors to leave there post. Ok... with the use of a trusty conversion calculator that is equivalent to about 27K here in the US. I am not definite on an actual salary information regarding an FO slot from one of these LCC's or government subsidized airlines. This could just be some sort of signing bonus event. I am still researching!

Based on my experiences, as well as my relatives, that would be considered quite a bit in terms of Buying Power in India. My parent's use the term live like a KING. You know what I mean if you traveled over there.

Peace.

I prefer living like a viking, but that's probably just semantics.

The ass-pain involved in converting the certificates seems pretty minor if you look at the exchange rate. Seems to me that a young guy in this career could go a hell of a lot farther on 27k a year in India than he could in Teterboro, and maybe enjoy it a little more and build some ICAO time. That's just me though. Some guys like the starving purist lifestyle.

 

[414Flyer]

I think your Rupees to dollars conversion is a bit off. I think its about 45 rupees to the dollar, so that 100000 R should convert to about 2200 Dollars.

My copilots there with as little as 300 hours were getting interviews with the major airlines there. Some of them were having problems flying and talking on the radio at the same time

A big problem Indians face who get the licenses in the US in converting to Indian license. It is a much less standardized and transparent system there. Whoever grades it can give you whatever score they feel like, and in reality, you could get everything actually right and fail the test. The person grading it could just fail you intentionally because he feels like it, or he could expect you to give him money somehow. You cant really demand to see what you actually got wrong, or to complain to that persons boss either. What you get for a score is what you get, nothing you can do about it until the next time you are eligible to attempt it again.

 

[dash8driver]

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.

what about for the irregular pilots? i have a friend who's a good pilot but he's irregular...even with metamucil.

 

[dash8driver]

I think your Rupees to dollars conversion is a bit off. I think its about 45 rupees to the dollar, so that 100000 R should convert to about 2200 Dollars.

his rupees to dollars conversion is right. its just that he changed units on you and didnt tell you. he said 100000 per month..then converted it and said 27k. now thats obviously not per month or there'd be a line so long, you'd have to fly to china to get to the end. so, taking your conversion of 2200/month and doing a little math 2200 * 12 = 26400. pretty close to 27k...