Air India Express
 

So what's the deal??? Is Air India Express looking for expats or are they just pulling everyone's chain by wasting time with the completing of mounds of worthless paperwork?

Anyone??? Anyone??? Bueller??? Anyone?

Hey , even i have been trying to find out what is going on in AI express but its surprising to find that noone on this forum knows about it or doesnt wanna share the info!!

they are desperately looking for TRI/TREs. They received about 5-10 applications (including 1 or 2 from jet airways). But so far they have selected 3 of which 2 of them have issues with medicals and stuff. They received approval for 20 TRI/TRE but till date only one has been selected.

Who is the recruiter looking for Tre's. Is it AIE or an agency.
And who is the boss of AIE. Anyone with info, please share. Can we get in touch on any email address.

AIE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Ltd. which is owned by Government of India.

AIE has appointed RISHWORTH as the recruiter to help it recruit 20 TRE/TRI and 20 line captains. In all 40 Expat captains.

AIE has a sever shortage of TRE/TRI and has been desperately looking to recruit 20 expat TRE/TRI without much luck.

@Gestapo : if u need any more info please feel free to PM:ok:

Advertisements for TRI/TRE on Rishworthaviation website

Opportunity: Air India B737NG TRI - Urgent Requirement - Rishworth Aviation

Opportunity: Air India B737NG TRE - Urgent Requirement - Rishworth Aviation

As I recall, AI EX had a tentative assessment date of the 5th of July was cancelled at the last moment. The recruiter, from Rishworth, is unable to provide any information whatsoever, other than they are looking for crews.

In AI management style, or lack there of, its "ORGANIZED CHAOS:}" nobody knows anything.

Back to the Risworth recruiter... she is not in the pro-active mode to get contact any of the Gabronies at AI EX to get any sort of a time line as to what their plans are.

So long as the Dogra brothers have their say and run the airline as per their whims and fancies, AIX will most certainly continue being a RUIN.

The beauty of this organization is that noone knows exactly what is happening and what lies in the future. Sticking to the topic of recruitment, i have spoken to over a dozen employees of AI Express, some from the management and some even at the level of check pilots, but unfortunately everyone has given me a different picture. After talking to them i am not even able to deduce whether there is a crew shortage or they are overstaffed. Some say thatthere is an acute crew shortage and they need to hire asap, but due to the procedures and involvment of AI HR, and other officials its causing a delay which is also leading to cancellations of flights. On the contraray soMe suggest that they are overstaffed and pilots are not being utilized to their capacity and quite a few are just waiting to get online after their training and its been over a year that they have been sitting idle. I absolutely have no idea whom to believe and whom not to.:ugh::ugh:

Errr, welcome to the airline business, Grapevine. It's that way everywhere. AIE seems to be a little "above average" is the disorganization department, but it's all relative - and no offense intended. I just wish they were trying to pick up line pilot expats as well as TRI's.

Still no closer to setting a date for assessments nor class dates.

About the only thing the Gebronies at AI EX are picking are the dingleberries out of their arses.

Air India Express faces shortage of 200 pilots

Air India Express, the international low-cost arm of the national carrier Air India, requires around 200 more pilots to ensure smooth operations and increase its fleet utilisation to 12 hours a day from around six hours now.

In a presentation to civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on Monday, the airline company has said that they currently have 46 sets or 108 pilots available and and will require 126 sets of pilots more. Around 100 pilots will join the airline soon after they finish their training, which they were subjected to because of the strike.

Taking note of the problem of low fleet utilisation, Singh has advised to induct pilots from Air India to sort out the problem of pilot shortage in the interim.

“Taking a note of their problems, the minister has advised that 60 Air India pilots, who are currently being trained, should join the low-cost subsidiary immediately after the training. This will address a part of their shortage problem,” a senior civil aviation ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

The minister has also asked Air India Express to increase its fleet utilisation to 12 hours a day from 5.69 hours a day currently.

The low-cost carrier has 21 aircraft in its fleet — 17 owned and 4 leased — and operates 134 flights a week.

Air India Express faces shortage of 200 pilots - Indian Express

Great! We'll just change the schedule tomorrow!

And, oh yeah, at that level we need to hire 950 more mechanics ...

Management can espouse all the rhetoric they desire.... The rags can print all the garbage they want. But again at the end of the day... nothing will happen... no assessments... no interviews... no hiring... no class dates... just plain old rhetoric.

Rumours doing the rounds that AI express has started the recruitment process and have sent out call letters.. Anyone who has received the call letter for TR FO?? Can someone confirm?

http://www.airindiaexpress.in/Data/W...030MAR2012.pdf

List for the candidates is out and above is the link for the same. Exam is on the 22nd of september. Best of luck to all who are called.

Results would be declared the same day after the exam, and successful candidates will be required to stay back for document verification and psychometric evaluation the next day. Candidates who clear then will be called for interview/sim check.

I wonder there so many B737NG type ratted pilots sitting home and only 37 pilots are sitting for the exam?

Does anyone know how many pilots are sitting home with 737 TR?:rolleyes:

Jet8
 

The candidate list which you saw is the SC/ST/OBC category which is surprisingly a higher number according to what I had imagined ie 37.

Now, after their selection process I believe they will be conducting examination for General category for which my assumption is their will be around 210-250 odd Type rated candidates.:ok:

i dont think so for general category there will be more than 160-170 guys who will be called. Keep in mind that only people who had applied in march -may 2012 i.e when the advertisement was out are being called. I am sure a lot of people would have got their type rating endorsed between april and sept 2012 but unfortunately they will not be eligible. I guess that the examination for the general category candidates will only take place after 22nd september, safe bet maybe in the first week of november. I hope this time the recruitment will be a clean process!!