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NEW DELHI: With airspace restrictions to the westbound of India expanding astatine a furious gait successful the past 11 months, Air India is yet sending reinforcement pilots for its agelong haul backbone fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners that are deployed connected ever-lengthening Europe and UK routes.
The conversion of astir 28 to 30 pilots of Boeing 777s to the Dreamliner is astir implicit and they volition commencement connected the B787s adjacent month. Conversion grooming for different batch of astir 15 constrictive assemblage pilots to the B787 volition statesman from March 23.This was conveyed to the fatigued-by-now wide assemblage pilots of AI past Saturday by the hose management. The hose is going to person much constrictive assemblage pilots to the B787 and Airbus A350 arsenic the much of the second benignant are expected to articulation the fleet aboriginal this year.
The B777s' numbers successful AI fleet is falling arsenic the bequest planes are being sent for retrofitting.In the astir caller instance, Pakistan airspace for Indian carriers was closed connected April 23, 2025. Since past Indian carriers' flights to and from the westbound person been taking longer routes - going implicit Arabian Sea seeing wide of Karachi airspace and past heading to their destinations. These routes got adjacent longer erstwhile Iran had to beryllium avoided.
The Israel-Iran warfare has further accrued the nary alert areas and this keeps increasing, pushing airlines much to the southbound of Saudi."The hose seeks and gets dispensation from the DGCA from aviator formation work clip regulation (FDTL) rules, allowing it to present run longer flights of upto 11.5 hours with conscionable 2 pilots. We are wholly fatigued present arsenic the buildup has been happening for a twelvemonth and alternatively of getting immoderate relief, its keeps getting worse with much punishing FDTL dispensations," said galore pilots.
