{"id":18417,"date":"2022-03-02T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=18417"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:28:27","slug":"pilot-shortage-deters-air-india-from-flying-large-aircraft-for-evacuation-of-indians-from-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/pilot-shortage-deters-air-india-from-flying-large-aircraft-for-evacuation-of-indians-from-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot shortage deters Air India from flying large aircraft for evacuation of Indians from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Due to a dearth of pilots who can fly larger aircraft like the B 747, Air India has had to rely on its smaller aircraft (Boeing 787 Dreamliner) <strong>to evacuate Indians <\/strong>stranded in war-torn Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first six evacuation planes from Ukraine, which began five days ago, about <strong>1,400 Indians had returned to India.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114.jpg\" alt=\"Due to a dearth of pilots who can fly larger aircraft like the B 747, Air India has had to rely on its smaller aircraft (Boeing 787 Dreamliner) \" class=\"wp-image-18419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0114-750x393.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\"> If Air India had been able to send a larger plane, such as a B 747, more people may have been evacuated.\n\nA B 747 can carry up to 600 passengers, whereas a B 787 Dreamliner can only carry 330 passengers. \n\nDue to repairs, the Boeing 744 simulator was removed, and pilots were forced to use the <strong>Singapore Airlines <\/strong>simulator in the meByantime.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Air India has declined to comment on the pilot shortage. <\/p><p>&#8220;<strong>Aviation positioning is determined by a variety of criteria, including aircraft availability, ground handling infrastructure at destination airports, fuel efficiency, and so on. Because of operational and infrastructure constraints. Air India is now using B 787 planes,&#8221;<\/strong> a representative for the airline told TNIE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0113.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Air India has 141 aircraft, including 24 Boeing B737-800s operated by Air India Express. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A total of 43 of these are leased. <\/li><li>Airbus (A319-100, A320-200, A320-200neo, A321-200) and Boeing (B747-400, B777-200(LR), B777-300(ER), and B787-800) aircraft make up Air India&#8217;s fleet.<\/li><li>Meanwhile, several Indian airlines are already transporting stranded Indians back to India from Ukraine.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Informed with us !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a dearth of pilots who can fly larger aircraft like the B 747, Air India has had to rely on its smaller aircraft (Boeing 787 Dreamliner) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[2326,2106,5433,5434,5161],"class_list":{"0":"post-18417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-air-india-pilots","9":"tag-boeing-747","10":"tag-flying-planes","11":"tag-large-aircraft","12":"tag-pilot-shortage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18485,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417\/revisions\/18485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}