Air India Plans To Hire Expat Pilots For Wide-Body Planes

Tata group-owned Air India plans to hire expat pilots for its Boeing 777 planes as the airline is facing a shortage of pilots amid plans to expand its fleet as well as international operations, according to sources.
    
The carrier is looking to rope in around 100 pilots for the wide-body Boeing 777 fleet and has approached various agencies that provide expat flight crew to airlines, the sources told PTI.
    
The loss-making Air India, which was under government ownership for nearly seven decades till the Tata group took over in January 2022, had . . .