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GROUNDING EXPAT PILOTS: Jet will terminate contracts of expat pilots over the next six months.

GROUNDING EXPAT PILOTS: Jet will terminate contracts of expat pilots over the next six months.

Cost cutting: Jet to lay off 35 expat pilots

Even as the pilot body of Jet Airways is planning to send a formal proposal to its management, asking to do away with the expat pilots to prune costs, the airlines has decided to enact on the suggestion and is ready to terminate the contracts of 36 foreign pilots. Around 35 pilots who had come as first officers and were undergoing training on the French ATR aircraft have been told that their contracts will not be renewed.

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