{"id":21040,"date":"2025-01-10T00:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=21040"},"modified":"2025-01-10T00:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:57:45","slug":"akasa-air-pilots-seek-probe-into-airlines-hiring-practices-other-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=21040","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air Pilots Seek Probe Into Airline&#8217;s Hiring Practices, Other Lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A section of Akasa Air has written to the civil aviation ministry seeking a probe into the airline&#8217;s hiring practices, alleging rostering issues and other lapses.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, these pilots have claimed that some operating crew do not report to work on time and claimed that there are issues with reporting of On Time Performance.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the section of the pilots sent an e-mail to Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu, Civil Aviation Secretary, and Director General of Civil Aviation, flagging various issues at the airline.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Akasa Air.<\/p>\n<p>In the e-mail, the pilots have sought an investigation into the airline&#8217;s hiring practices, claiming that hiring was being done at the whims and fancies of a chosen few.<\/p>\n<p>It also alleged that the carrier does not have a stable roster.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the section of pilots had raised concerns about alleged training and safety issues at the airline even though the airline had rejected them as baseless and untrue.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Akasa Air, which has been flying for over two years, has come under the regulatory lens for certain lapses.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) withdrew the Line Training Captain approval given to an Akasa Air pilot for lapses in landing of a passenger aircraft in March 2024, till further orders.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the DGCA ordered the suspension of director of operations and director of training at the airline for six months for alleged lapses in pilots&#8217; training.<\/p>\n<p>A fine of Rs 30 lakh was imposed on the airline for certain lapses in the training of crew in October last year by the DGCA.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bA section of Akasa Air has written to the civil aviation ministry seeking a probe into the airline&#8217;s hiring practices, alleging rostering issues and other lapses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A section of Akasa Air has written to the civil aviation ministry seeking a probe into the airline&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",650,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",640,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",640,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",650,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/egntohs_akasa-air-boeing_625x300_21_June_22-5DHV8G-590x400.jpeg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}