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Old 4th Jun 2010, 09:33
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1.Ministers, beaurocrats worried and expressing the need for foreign pilots.
As they rightly should be, in any country with such massive aviation expansion plans and an airline introducing new types, it is their responsibility as minister to ensure that the experience levels are maintained to a safe minimum.
2.Air India recruitment process not transparent
And how exactly is it possible to have a "not transparent" recruitment when you're not even doing the hiring, you're dealing with an agency? Be specific about what you mean, else you're just using big mysterious words that mean nothing.
3.Using legal loopholes and setting up recruitment agencies(Parc,Rishworth), ministers and bureaucrats made money out of it. These companies were based in tax-free countries such as Dubai.
Parc is based in the UK, Rishworth in New Zealand, both of which have more restrictive and a damn sight less corrupt taxation regimes than India. Both agencies you refer to have been in existence for decades, and have a history of supplying contract pilots to dozens of reputable global airlines, most of which have a better safety record than AI.
4.Earning of foreign pilots doesn't contribute to Indian taxes.
So you're posting this garbage out of sympathy for the Indian tax man then are you?
5.Experience of foreign pilots is not verified by DGCA.
So, do you have any actual examples of AI expat agency pilots with falsified hours - or are you just talking hot air and stirring up trouble?

This is just a cheap and disgraceful attempt to paint all expats with the Mangalore-crash safety brush. It's even more disgraceful because the accident report isn't even released yet. It's so blatantly written by a bitter and twisted wannabe who thinks expats are somehow stealing their jobs and that they could do it better.

If you are so arrogant as to be implying that the accident couldn't or wouldn't have happened if a "local" was at the controls then you are beneath contempt. Indian pilots who want to cry about industrial relations / management corruption / expats stealing their jobs are welcome to do so, and you may have a point, but don't do it by pointing the finger of "safety" at others until you have got your own house in order.
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