Then we get to fly planes which we cannot aspire to in Indian carriers,” said an Indian pilot working with a domestic airline.Sure, lots of people love a turbid IPA.
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But being tax free makes it really big for us. “While in overall terms, the salary may not seem too high compared to what pilots earn in India. For captains, this figure goes up to about Rs 10.5 lakh. A leading Gulf carrier’s website says the total monthly salary (tax free with accommodation allowance included) is about Rs 7.9 lakh for first officers on Boeing 777 and A-380. So the number of wide body pilots these three airlines can absorb is rather limited and applying for foreign airlines with twin aisles in their fleet is an option that we have to look at,” said a wide body pilot of an Indian carrier.
The ramp up of Vistara’s wide body fleet is going to be a gradual one and we do not know what the low cost carriers will do when. IndiGo and SpiceJet have been talking of inducting wide body aircraft in their fleets. “In India, Tata-SIA JV Vistara has ordered Boeing 787 and some pilots of AI (which has been flying this aircraft for years) and Jet (which has B-777) are applying there. All other Indian carriers as of now have only single aisle Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family planes apart from turboprops. Jet and Air India are the only airlines here with both single and twin aisle planes and they are both facing severe financial turbulence. Officials of some big foreign airlines say on condition of not being identified that there has been a spurt in job applications from pilots of wide body aircraft of the only two Indian carriers that currently operate planes like the A330 and Boeing 777, 787 and 747. Kingfisher had ordered five A380s but it closed before taking delivery of any of them,” said an Indian pilot. “While monetary aspect is obviously there when we go to fly for foreign airlines, the other reason is also that we get a chance of fly aircraft that are not on the radar of Indian airlines. Earlier this year, TOI had reported that at least 60 Indian origin pilots are flying the A380 with airlines like Emirates and Etihad. The A350 ULR, for instance, is the latest bird in the sky with SIA its launch customer that started commercial operations using this plane last week. Indian pilots have being proving their mettle globally and foreign airlines are getting to fly the latest aircraft. SIA, which has almost 2,000 pilots, did not say how many of them are of Indian origin. With a flying time of almost 19 hours to cover 16,800 km, this nonstop has two sets of pilots with each set having a Captain and a first officer (FO). Their names and ranking are: Captains I R Chaudhury and Ruben Gamoo and senior first officers Maxx Tan and KH Lim,” a SIA spokesperson said. Out of the four pilots, three are Singaporeans while one is Malaysian. “There were four pilots operating the inaugural Newark-Singapore flight.
While sources say both the commanders of the first Newark-Singapore nonstop on the Airbus A350 ultra long range (ULR) are of Indian origin, SIA did not comment on that. Singapore Airlines (SIA) had the inaugural Changi-Newark (EWR) last Thursday and the return leg was operated a day later. NEW YORK: At least two Indian origin captains were among the four pilots who flew the first New York-Singapore flight, the world’s longest nonstop, last Friday.
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