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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Centre gives in to Sonia demand, AI to hire half its pilots from Indira Gandhi academy

The Union Civil Aviation Ministry has finally agreed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s demand that Air India fulfills its commitment of recruiting 50 per cent of its commercial pilots from Rae Bareli-based Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA).

n its latest recruitment drive to fill up 180 posts of pilots, Air India has committed that it will hire 90 pilots from IGRUA. This will be the largest recruitment by a particular airline from the institute in the last five years. This comes hardly a fortnight after Air India Express — a low-cost airline subsidiary of Air India — agreed to visit IGRUA to recruit 40 pilots, as reported by The Indian Express on July 24. This was in response to Sonia’s letter — dated April 1, 2015 — where she had reminded the Civil Aviation Ministry of Air India’s promise to hire 50 per cent of its pilots from IGRUA.
Read news in full 15/08/15 Indian Express

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