The aviation sector requires around 100 more pilots every year and the government would upgrade its flying training academies to bridge the shortfall.
Two of the SpiceJet’s Boeing passenger planes- one from Mumbai and other from Bengaluru- suffered mid-air technical glitches, forcing their pilots to terminate journeys with one flight landing back in Mumbai and second diverted to Nagpur Saturday.
“With immediate effect, we are compelled to cancel all our international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,” Jet Airways informed the exchanges.