Flying Hours For Pilots

Aviation regulator DGCA said on Tuesday pilots and cabin crew members will not fly in an aircraft for 48 hours after being vaccinated against coronavirus.

With 83 flight hours and a flying licence from Johannesburg in South Africa under his belt, 20-year-old Adam Harry wanted to train to become a commercial pilot. But he ended up being grounded at his home in Kerala for an entire year instead, and all because he had decided to come out with the truth about his gender identity.

The Delhi High Court directed the aviation regulator DGCA not to permit a pilot to fly a maximum of 125 hours over 30 consecutive days.

A senior pilot, who decided to take a nap during an Islamabad-London flight in April, putting the lives of 305 passengers aboard at risk, has been taken off duty by the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Reports reveal that Amir Akhtar Hashmi allegedly slept for two-and-a-half-hours in business class cabin seat after handing over the aircraft t...

In a bizarre incident, passengers of an Air India flight from Chennai to Male were made to wait for over two hours because the flight commander refused to fly without a certain woman co-pilot. The airline has ordered a probe.

Air France-KLM unveiled a new restructuring plan today threatening 2,900 job cuts after pilots for the struggling airline refused to accept longer flying hours, triggering a "violent" protest at a board meeting.

An Air India flight was delayed by three hours after its pilot refused to accept a "dirty" emergency oxygen mask and insisted for a "fresh" one before flying the plane.

.A small US plane crashed in waters off Jamaica on Friday after flying for hours with an unresponsive pilot, veering off course and sparking a fighter jet escort. At least two people were killed.

A Malaysian jet that vanished a week ago appears to have changed course and continued flying for hours, a senior Malaysian military official said Saturday, citing radar data indicating a "skilled, competent" pilot was at the controls.

A teenager described on Sunday how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia.

Pilots and cabin crew on Tuesday staged demonstrations in several European airports against planned EU legislation they say could force them to fly excessive hours and threaten the safety of passengers, but critics accused them of scaremongering.

Air India pilots seem to be heading for yet another showdown with the management by flying "under protest" over the recent changes in their flight duty hours which they slammed as "arbitrary and illegal".

According to the analysis, the pilots were found operating flights for 6.5 hours on domestic and seven hours on international sectors, against the DGCA guidelines of nine and 10 hours respectively.

On April 30, Mid-Day brought to the notice of top Air India management the matter of a commuter - an aspiring Indian pilot - who was allegedly deliberately delayed and then declared a no-show by its staffers at Toronto's Pearson Airport for a flight to Delhi. Within hours, Air India officials at its Mumbai headquarters swung into action and a clear...

Aviation regulator DGCA said on Tuesday pilots and cabin crew members will not fly in an aircraft for 48 hours after being vaccinated against coronavirus.

With 83 flight hours and a flying licence from Johannesburg in South Africa under his belt, 20-year-old Adam Harry wanted to train to become a commercial pilot. But he ended up being grounded at his home in Kerala for an entire year instead, and all because he had decided to come out with the truth about his gender identity.

The Delhi High Court directed the aviation regulator DGCA not to permit a pilot to fly a maximum of 125 hours over 30 consecutive days.

A senior pilot, who decided to take a nap during an Islamabad-London flight in April, putting the lives of 305 passengers aboard at risk, has been taken off duty by the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Reports reveal that Amir Akhtar Hashmi allegedly slept for two-and-a-half-hours in business class cabin seat after handing over the aircraft t...

In a bizarre incident, passengers of an Air India flight from Chennai to Male were made to wait for over two hours because the flight commander refused to fly without a certain woman co-pilot. The airline has ordered a probe.

Air France-KLM unveiled a new restructuring plan today threatening 2,900 job cuts after pilots for the struggling airline refused to accept longer flying hours, triggering a "violent" protest at a board meeting.

An Air India flight was delayed by three hours after its pilot refused to accept a "dirty" emergency oxygen mask and insisted for a "fresh" one before flying the plane.

.A small US plane crashed in waters off Jamaica on Friday after flying for hours with an unresponsive pilot, veering off course and sparking a fighter jet escort. At least two people were killed.

A Malaysian jet that vanished a week ago appears to have changed course and continued flying for hours, a senior Malaysian military official said Saturday, citing radar data indicating a "skilled, competent" pilot was at the controls.

A teenager described on Sunday how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia.

Pilots and cabin crew on Tuesday staged demonstrations in several European airports against planned EU legislation they say could force them to fly excessive hours and threaten the safety of passengers, but critics accused them of scaremongering.

Air India pilots seem to be heading for yet another showdown with the management by flying "under protest" over the recent changes in their flight duty hours which they slammed as "arbitrary and illegal".

According to the analysis, the pilots were found operating flights for 6.5 hours on domestic and seven hours on international sectors, against the DGCA guidelines of nine and 10 hours respectively.

On April 30, Mid-Day brought to the notice of top Air India management the matter of a commuter - an aspiring Indian pilot - who was allegedly deliberately delayed and then declared a no-show by its staffers at Toronto's Pearson Airport for a flight to Delhi. Within hours, Air India officials at its Mumbai headquarters swung into action and a clear...