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Saturday 17 October 2015

Are Indian airlines slowly facing a major staff poaching crisis?

Rahul Bhatia promoted IndiGo attracted majority of pilots who left Jet Airways and Air India in a little over one year. As many as 62 pilots of Jet Airways and Air India flew out of the two airlines.

While private carrier Jet Airways has lost 30 pilots in 15 months to budget carrier IndiGo, state-owned Air India has seen the migration of 32 pilots in the past one year, industry sources said.


"Some 30 pilots including ATR commanders and Boeing 737 first officers have left Jet Airways in the past 15 months to take up employment with IndiGo for better pay packages and work environment," sources told PTI.

Most of these pilots have already joined IndiGo after serving the mandatory 6-month notice period, they said, adding the rest are expected to board the airline in the next one to two months.

A Jet Airways spokesperson termed the resignation of the pilots as a part of normal attrition faced by organisations.
Read news in full 11/10/15 Business Insider

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