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The number of Canadian pilots seeking to fly in the United States tripled in 2022, according to previously unreported U.S. government data, raising fears of deepening shortages in Canada as pilots seek higher wages.

NEW DELHI : Google on Thursday announced an India-tuned version of its generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered version of its primary product, Search. The platform, which will be available as a pilot to select users, will offer a chatbot-like experience—instead of the typical search bar that has been synonymous with the search engine so far. The India-specific version of Google’s AI-powered Search, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), will offer users the ability to search in English and Hindi, and also offer both voice readouts of search results, and voice inputs for search queries.

Air India pilots' grouping has raised fatigue concerns in the wake of flight crew rosters generated using a new rostering tool, saying that extended waiting periods between duty time will jeopardise crew alertness and performance. «Extended waiting periods, occurring before active flight duties, run counter to enhancing crew readiness and, in fact, contribute to the accumulation of fatigue over time,» the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) has said. In a letter to Air India Head of Safety Henry Donohoe last week, IPG said it has been recently observed that the relentless pursuit of operational efficiency and economic gains has led to an unintended overshadowing of the primary intent behind Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) regulations. The Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) are laid down by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to ensure adequate res timings for pilots and cabin crew staff. The issue of fatigue among pilots is in focus following the death of an IndiGo pilot recently.

Pilots at American Airlines have approved a new contract that will raise their pay more than 40% over four years

pilots plan to form an association to challenge flying duty regulations they say cause fatigue and jeopardise safety after an IndiGo pilot collapsed and died before his flight. Former pilots have taken to social media and newspaper columns to publicly raise concerns that airlines, though operating within regulatory frameworks, are stretching them to the brink as air travel booms in India. The sudden death last week of an IndiGo pilot heightened those worries although India's biggest airline says he had a 27-hour break before duty and was in good health.Captain Shakti Lumba, a retired vice president at IndiGo, has garnered the support of hundreds of pilots who plan to come together with an existing group of 600 to raise awareness and lodge concerns over fatigue with authorities and airlines. «The main focus of the group will be compliance with international standards and recommended practices, flight safety and pilot fatigue — which is a clear and present danger to (the) safety of aircraft operations in India,» said Lumba, who was involved in setting up IndiGo's operations from 2005. India's aviation watchdog did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. In the United States, regulators allow flights manned by two pilots to serve maximum duty time of 14 hours during the day and 9-10 hours for late-night flights.

CHICAGO (Reuters) — American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) pilots have approved a new four-year contract, their union said on Monday.

FedEx’s highfliers have been grounded. A sharp drop in package volume and a move to combine FedEx’s Express and Ground delivery units created a glut of pilots, leaving what was long the company’s most revered class of workers in a state of angst. “There are many concerns about FedEx flying and what the future holds," Pat DiMento, the company’s vice president of flight operations, wrote in a July letter to Express crew members viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Investigators are blaming pilot error for the 2021 crash of a private jet in California that killed all six people on board

Air India and Vistara merger later this year, Tata group has asked some of Air India's Boeing 787 pilots to fly Vistara's B787 planes, said three people with knowledge of the matter. The move, they said, marks the first instance of integration of the group's airline businesses and is aimed at creating a common pool of resources to foster synergies. The pilots will only move once the merger gets an approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

Indian Air Force pilots on the occasion of 77th Independence Day. The clip commences with a runway scene, introducing the presence of Hrithik Roshan in his pilot G-suit. Following suit are Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor, both attired in pilot uniforms, clutching helmets and donning sunglasses.

Russia's Kaliningrad region on Saturday during a training mission, killing the two pilots on board. «The Su-30 aircraft crashed in a deserted area.

Federal investigators say that miscommunication between pilots led to a United Airlines plane diving within 748 feet of the ocean’s surface shortly after takeoff from Hawaii in December

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Members of the German pilots' union VC have voted by a large majority to back a wage deal with Lufthansa, a spokesperson for the union told Reuters on Thursday.

Zomato has introduced a flat Rs 2 platform fee on its food delivery app in certain markets for select users, an experiment likely to be implemented across the board if successful to boost profitability. “This is in an experiment phase right now, and we may or may not scale,” a spokesperson for the Gurgaon-based food delivery company told ET in response to a query.

Federal investigators say the pilot of a charter jet took off without permission, causing an approaching JetBlue plane to cancel its landing at the last second

₹3,090 crore in Q1 2023-24. The performance review process for nearly 4,500 flight crew has begun, and the new salaries will be effective from October 1, an Economic Times report cited With over 60% of India's domestic market share, the airline reported its highest-ever quarterly profit. “While we regained and started to build our financial strength over this past year, we reviewed and reinstated salaries and allowances to pre-Covid levels.

IndiGo said that it will increase the salaries of its pilots and cabin crew after posting a record net profit of Rs 3,090 crore in the first quarter of 2023-24. The announcement came after the airline which has more than 60% share of India's domestic market reported a net profit of Rs 3,090 crore for April-June period.

The globe-trotting billionaire Joe Lewis , longtime owner of the London soccer club Tottenham Hotspur, spent the evening of July 25, 2019, with a woman who was then his girlfriend, dining on room service at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul. U.S. prosecutors say he also fed her confidential information about coming disclosures by a life-sciences company that she used to make stock trades that ultimately netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars.

American Airlines and the union for its pilots have agreed on a new contract, which will now go to a ratification vote

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Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the licenses of an IndiGo captain for three months and a co-pilot for one month following an incident involving a tail strike during landing at the Ahmedabad airport, a senior official told IANS. The suspension comes as a stern response to the aviation mishap that occurred on June 15, where flight 6E6595 en route from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad experienced a tail strike upon landing.