{"id":34668,"date":"2005-08-10T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/08\/10\/pilots-job-changing-causes-airline-troubles\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:46:27","slug":"pilots-job-changing-causes-airline-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/08\/10\/34668\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots' Job Changing Causes Airline Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"78\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/20050810-airplanecockpit.gif\" width=\"105\" align=\"right\">Many Chinese airlines companies are troubled by job-hopping pilots. At the end of 2004, Okay Airways Company, the first private air service provider in China, hired away a number of key pilots from Xinhua Airlines. This year, the newly established budget airline Spring Airlines again took pilots away from competitors and caused lawsuits with some, including Air China.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to the different financial strengths of China's mainland airline companies, pilots' incomes can vary dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, there was a regional limits on pilots' licenses and they could not move freely between different airlines. But the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China began to issue new licenses in 2004 to encourage pilots to move among different airlines nationwide to solve the problem of income gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines say that they need to spend as much as RMB8 million to train a captain, so job-hopping can cost an airline a good deal of money.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be no immediate solution to the problem. Some airlines have tried to make pilots sign longterm contracts, but often the pilots will move to airlines that do not have such stringent regulations. At least for pilots, the airline industry is proving to be an open-market economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Chinese airlines companies are troubled by job-hopping pilots. At the end of 2004, Okay Airways Company, the first private air service provider in China, hired away a number of key pilots from Xinhua Airlines. This year, the newly established budget airline Spring Airlines again took pilots away from competitors and caused lawsuits with some, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}