Kingfisher Airlines halts pilot hiring
Kingfisher Airlines has put an end to its pilot recruitments for now, and has opted not to honour the ‘letters of intent’ it had issued to its co-pilots earlier this year.
Reports quoted unnamed sources while saying that the airline had issued letters of intent to young pilots promising them jobs as co-pilots once they completed their Type Rating training from institutes abroad. They reports say that a number of these trainee pilots have since then completed their training programmes successfully and have even received their Indian licences, but have not heard from Kingfisher Airlines.
Reports quoted sources as saying that the trainee pilots had been informed that Kingfisher Airlines does not need crew and that the communication was given to the students as and when they completed course and thereafter contacted the airline for the job promised to them earlier.