New Delhi: Air carriers have started undertaking various measures to check the growing threat of fake pilot licences in an attempt to restore confidence in the safety of their services.
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet plans to conduct tests all over again for pilots. "We will make our pilots take various tests all over again," said its CEO Neil Raymond Mills. "One cannot verify a licence 100% if it is authorised by the regulator itself, because such a licence has to be trustworthy."
Some airlines are working with aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). "We are working with the DGCA in the investigation and providing all assistance that we can. Internally, a senior group of executives are focusing on these issues. We are reviewing all our internal records and providing them to the DGCA to help them with their investigation," said Aditya Ghosh, president IndiGo in a written communication.
National carrier Air India , too, has constituted a three-member committee to scrutinise documents of pilots under the scanner.
Airlines have been finding it tough to hire trained pilots as they expand their networks and flight schedules buoyed by growing number of passenger traffic.
17/03/11 Anindya Upadhyay/Economic Times
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