A third of Jet pilots may have already found jobs with other airlines

The grounding of Jet has come as an opportunity for the market to hire a readily-available skilled workforce from the licensed categories

As many as 600, or a third, of Jet Airways pilots have reportedly already found jobs with other airlines even as the  National Aviator's Guild (NAG), which represents pilots of the grounded carrier, requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite the binding bid date for the airline's stake to "preserve" enterprise value of the airline.

 

In the last few months right before Jet went bust, about 250 pilots resigned, bringing down its pilot strength to 1,350 from 1,600. Of the 250 pilots, over