Air Deccan

[TOGA TRUST]

Dear All

I would like to be in touch with expat pilot working with in Air deccan.

I'm waiting for my security clearance i need a lot of information about this company.

Thanks for your answer

[buswind]

I'm waiting too but just got the one for Indigo after 3-months.

[PosClimb]

What do you do while waiting for your Security Clearance?

Do you sit a hotel for months in Delhi while waiting for it?


Also, what kind of Security Clearance do the Indians do?

Your not an Indian national so you won't be in any Indian databases, so what can they really do?

[DeltaSix]

Also, are you able to get a security clearance even before you get there ? since it looks like it will take months.

[ITA]

Hi, been waiting for over 4 months now, not in India, once it's through they will send me the papers for the visa............:cool:

[jumpdrive]

no one relay knows what they do in that security check
for me its all rubish.............old thinking
but youll get it once you step into theyre DGCA building

without that pice of paper, NO visa
so sit back @ home & wait

the only thing you might have to wait for 2 o 3 weeks
could be the validation of your licence
mine took 3 weeks

& yes waiting in a 5 star hotel......actually 3 star or asterisc

[ZFT]

Abandoning a sinking ship? Ben M who came in with him is also departing.

Air Deccan COO leaving to join Indonesia's Mandala Leithen Francis, Singapore (16May07, 02:53 GMT) Air Deccan’s number two executive, Warwick Brady, is leaving to head up Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines in a top-level management departure that comes at a time when the Indian low-cost carrier is seeking to raise cash to keep its fleet expansion on track.
Several well-placed industry sources say chief operating officer Brady is leaving Air Deccan at the end of this month to be the new head of Jakarta-based low-cost carrier Mandala Airlines.
Other executives from Air Deccan will be joining him, add the sources.
Brady joined Air Deccan as the Bangalore-based chief operating officer in September 2005 and prior to that was head of Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair’s operations at London Stansted airport.
Mandala early last year underwent an ownership change in which Indonesian ground services and transportation conglomerate Cardig International bought the airline outright from the Indonesian military. Later that year it sold a 49% stake to US-based investment company Indigo Partners which also has a sizeable minority stake in Singapore-based low-cost carrier Tiger Airways.
Since the takeover Mandala has started a re-fleeting programme in which it has received Airbus A320s on lease and is looking to phase out its Boeing 737-200s.
Air Deccan, which recently reported a net loss of Rs2.13 billion ($52 million) for the January-March quarter, is currently seeking to do another round of cash-raising, this time to the tune of $50-100 million, according to a statement it released on 15 May to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The fast-growing low-cost carrier is also seen by some as a takeover target. Full-service carrier Kingfisher Airlines’ chairman and CEO, Vijay Mallya, said earlier this month that he is interested in acquiring Air Deccan but Air Deccan’s CEO, Capt G R Gopinath, said there was “absolutely” no chance of a deal going through and that a combination of the two airlines would make no sense.
Brady declined to comment when contacted by ATI.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news

[Left Wing]

Deccan has always been a sinking ship....Ben & Brady are leaving due to new HR policy...

[Pushpak]

Please could someone post the minimum experience required for a first officer
to move to the left seat in Deccan.
Thanks.

[haree]

Air Deccan is taking Expats who can sponsor their TR and Living and Allowing them to build hours from the right seat. This is with indian P1s or a Indian CPL Trainee on the jumpseat (ofcourse which happens everywhere).

Pushpak ...
You'd need 2500 hours with about 1500 in the company and an ALTP to upgrade to Left seat in most airlines in india.. DKN inclusive.


Haree

[Pushpak]

Thanks Haree, i was told by one of the pilot from Deccan that the company was upgrading with total of 2500hrs (could be all on C-152) and just 500 hrs on type(A-320), i thought that was far too little.....
By the way what happenend to the indian pilots web site....??
cheers

[haree]

indian pilots is closed there are 2 new forums i have given it in the other thread i dont want to get booted by pasting it in multiple threads :bored::}

As for 2500 hrs on C 152 and 500 hrs on type... :ugh: did u hear it from a newly joined First officer who dont know which radial he is on ;)

[Pushpak]

I too thought he was way off the radial but was sure as he was from within...anyway plse if you can let me know the web add..will appreciate a private message or link to the post.
Thanks

[teghjeet]

now pic reqts
ATR 3500 TT, A320 4500TT,
1000 On type as p2
may change after merger with KF

[Albotross]

100PIC on the A/C

[iamanaussiemavrick]

Hi,

What is the current requirements for trainee pilots(for indian citizens)?

[teghjeet]

now depts will be combined with KF maybe?

in a flux now

[haree]

KF and DN are gonna operate as seperate entities only the Engineering / Maintainence / Airport Services will be shared. Mallya has promised to introduce FREE bottled water (the non alchohol non aerated types :hmm:) on board Air Deccan and maybe shift pax of snagged flights across on both directions.

Haree

[teghjeet]

wait and see.. my boy,

[Left Wing]

"Air Deccan have any recoginsed A320 Training Provider" ...in Singapore with Alteon.

[Albotross]

Whats the process after getting hired by Air Deccan? Got the job...just waiting for civil aviation, and security clearance. Do i have to take any civil aviation test with them also? Thanks guys.