{"id":6080,"date":"2008-11-09T01:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/11\/09\/jet-airways-sacks-25-expatriate-pilots\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T01:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T01:14:30","slug":"jet-airways-sacks-25-expatriate-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/11\/09\/jet-airways-sacks-25-expatriate-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Airways sacks 25 expatriate pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Indian domestic airlines Jet airways has terminated the contracts of at least 25 expatriate pilots, news reports said Saturday.<br \/>\nA major hike in aviation fuel earlier this year combined with the impact of high inflation has led to a downturn in India&#8217;s aviation sector and the sackings are part of an effort to cut costs and streamline operations.<br \/>\nThe foreigners among the staff who had been sacked included captains of Boeing 737 aircraft, a Jet Airways spokesperson was quoted as saying by PTI news agency. The airlines had earlier grounded five of these aircraft.<br \/>\nSalaries for expatriates are about 40 % higher than their Indian counterparts and for a pilot is in the range of 15,000 to 18,000 dollars per month.<br \/>\nJet Airways had sacked around 400 support staff in October but later rolled back its decision after widespread protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian domestic airlines Jet airways has terminated the contracts of at least 25 expatriate pilots, news reports said Saturday. A major hike in aviation fuel earlier this year combined with the impact of high inflation has led to a downturn in India&#8217;s aviation sector and the sackings are part of an effort to cut costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}