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No Pilot shortage? How Confusing


As this video so stridently complains “Air India is Claiming a pilot shortage.”
But what is wrong with this picture: cancelling flights, pilots flying below their minimum hours; after flights cancelled, then routes immediately taken over by smaller airlines. Why would Air India give away profits to smaller, private airlines? Is cash greasing someone’s pockets? Is this poor management, or something else?

What?

So. How is it that the pilots in the Mangalore crash were overflown (and exhausted) , when this report is saying Air India flights are normally underflown? Is this just a change of policy to attempt to change history? A one time incident due to cancellations? What is going on here? Why isn’t India’s aviation’s agency at least as upset as this reporter?

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