Several of the carriers of the India, and its State-run airline, Air India, fired drivers active as a result of the investigation, which discovered drivers forge flywheels, cheating in flight reviews and pay corrupts them official trials.
The Indian Government and the private sector are already shaking with the corruption scandals which have tainted the companies of mobile phone and last year's Commonwealth Games. The survey pilot, transports, special shock value.
"You really are messing with people's lives if you are messing with pilot's licence," said Neil Mills, Director General of SpiceJet, a carrier of low prices here who fired three pilots for violations. "The sentences imposed for bribery and step to stick to the rules should be much stricter and better enforced.
The review of the India active commercial pilots licenses is half-finished, said an official with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the main airline the India regulator. Until now, government officials have revoked licenses of 6 commanders, certify the pilots experienced support in the cockpit, and the licences of 13 other commercial pilots, often held by agents of first.
The Agency is also investigating dozens of flight schools which were cropped in recent years, as demand has grown for new pilots. Pilot here schools attract new students, engineers for women at home and may require more than $65,000 for a course which lasts less than a year.
The airline industry of the India began to expand 20 years in economic liberalization, but it has grown phenomenal as the economy has flourished in recent years, attracting billions of dollars in investments and giving rise to a number of new airlines to manage tens of millions of new passengers. Monitoring of the Government of the boom, the airline professionals and analysts here say, dragged dangerously.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, D.G.C.A., is responsible for monitoring, the security of the airport maintenance of vehicles and pilot training and certification. This week, r. s. Passi, Director of aviation safety, has been removed from employment amid accusations that his daughter, Garima Passi, had received preferential treatment in obtaining his pilot's licence. She was suspended from SpiceJet month last on irregularities.
But more serious problem of the Agency is not the corruption within, but the crippling lack of staff, critics say, adding that he has little real chance of the police a rife of nepotism and corruption-prone industry.
"It is not the question of a single case, or a Director of D.G.C.A. or an airline, and then we can fix and get over it," said Kapil Kaul, Chief Executive in Asia in the South for the Center for Asia Pacific Aviationa research group. "It's a failure of the whole system."
Just more than 63 million people flew in Indian airlines in 2010, more than double the number of passengers, five years ago. The India has added more than 300 commercial aircraft and more than 500 private aircraft and helicopters in the past 10 years, Mr. Kaul estimates.
While air transport growth is slowed in Asia over the past months, in India he is still in full expansion. Domestic airlines transported 9.6 million passengers in January of this year, an increase of 19.6% per one year before.
Accident rates have remained relatively low. Last may crash of a flight of Air India Express at Mangalore that killed 158 people, was the first major accident by an Indian carrier in a decade.
The Director General of the Office of aviation acknowledged that he did had not grown rapidly with the industry. "If you look at the F.A.A. for the United States, they have five or six thousand employees," said the official, E.K. Bharat Bhushan. "I have 140 people, with 82 airports."
About two years, the Federal Aviation Administration found enough problems with Indian carriers that it threatens to downgrade their category 2 status, which would have limited their ability to extend the road to the United States. But this threat was lifted when the Indian agency aviation has promised to add 550 positions and any other major change.
Most of these jobs were not filled, said Mr. Bhushan. He said "because it is a Government Department, recruitment was difficult,". Even if a fast-track hiring plan, he had proposed to the India top Ministers succeeds, he said, experts qualified conclusion airline in the country will be difficult. "We just have enough people," he said.
Pilot groups say that the test system itself is in need of modernization.
"Our system is just prehistoric," said Rishabh Kapur, the Secretary General of the Association of Commercial Indians, a national pilots union pilots. Written tests are given only four times a year and do are not computerized, and results take two months, he said. Often, the tests have more to do with the skills of understanding and grammar that flying skills in reading, he added.
"We must raise our socks and global standards", said Mr. Kapur.
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