Former civil aviation minister Rudy joins IndiGo as co-pilot

New Delhi: Former Civil Aviation Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy has been hired as a co-pilot with Delhi-based private airline IndiGo Airlines on an honorary basis.
The first Indian civil aviation minister to fly for a commercial airline — Rajiv Gandhi has been the only prime minister to do so — Rudy started his job with IndiGo from January 4.
He is doing so mainly to meet the requisite flying hours on the Airbus A320, for which he has held a commercial pilot’s licence from US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved SimCenter in Miami, Florida since 2007. The licence needs to be renewed every two years.
“I am a qualified Airbus A320 pilot and to keep my licence current I had to fly a particular kind of aircraft. I would have loved to fly Air India but there is no such provision so I chose the IndiGo offer,” Rudy told Business Standard, adding that senior BJP party leaders have supported his decision.
Rudy has so far flown five flights on the Delhi-Mumbai sector.
30/01/10 Surajeet Das Gupta & Mihir Mishra/Business Standard

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