Airlines
Indian Air Transport Growth Threatened by Pilot, Slot Shortages
CAPA-Centre for Aviation estimates a 15- to 20-percent shortfall of captains in India.

Pilot shortages and decreasing slots at the congested metropolitan airports in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad have led Indian air carriers to start to reduce capacity and increase fares. Forecasters project India’s domestic traffic to grow this year by 14 to 16 percent, to 165 million passengers, and international traffic to increase 10 to 12 percent, to around 77 million. However, present constraints threaten to stymie the expansion trends.


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