Jet Airways to absorb student pilots

Mumbai: Thanks to the acute shortage of pilots in the country, one no longer needs a commercial pilot's licence (CPL) to apply for a job. Jet Airways has kicked off a new scheme by inviting applications from students who have already cleared their ground training subjects and are currently being trained in flying institutes.
Taking note of the poor response to Indian Airlines' call for applications from pilots a few months ago, Jet has evidently decided to book future CPL holders much before they enter the job market. Indian Airlines, which had called for applications from CPL holders to fill up 239 vacant posts for co-pilots, managed to fill up only 31 posts due to the pilot shortage. This despite the fact that a trainee\co-pilot takes home a pay cheque of Rs 1.5 lakh every month.
16/06/06 Manju V/Times of India

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