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Where do we get captains from?’ AI, IndiGo locked in dogfight for pilots amid FDTL fallout; joining bonus up to Rs 50 lakh

Representative image (ANI) NEW DELHI: Call it the IndiGo schedule collapse and its fallout impact. A clamour has broken out between the budget airline and Air India group over having adequate captains to avoid a repeat of what happened under the new safety-enhancing flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules.IndiGo has had to commit to DGCA…

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Where do we get captains from? AI, IndiGo locked in dogfight for pilots amid FDTL fallout; joining bonus up to Rs 50 lakh | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: Call it the IndiGo schedule collapse or its fallout impact. A clamour has broken out between the budget airline and Air India group over having adequate captains to avoid a repeat of what happened under the new safety-enhancing flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules.IndiGo has had to commit to DGCA about hiring pilots…

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IndiGo crisis: Pilots allege chaos were engineered to bring new FDTL regime to its knees | Kolkata News

Passengers check flight information board at Kolkata airport. KOLKATA: Pilots in IndiGo Airlines have questioned how the shortage of 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the implementation of the revised flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms could have triggered the cancellation and delays of thousands of flights and alleged that the crisis was engineered to…

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New FDTL not entirely put on hold; only IndiGo A320 fleet operations given limited relaxations

MUMBAI: The new Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL), which came into effect on November 1, have not been put on hold in its entirety; only specific, temporary relaxations have been granted, and only for IndiGo’s A320 fleet, to help restore schedules disrupted over the past few days, clarified an official from the ministry of civil…

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