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IndiGo looks to hire 50 expat pilots to meet FDTL deadline
Financial Express Pune
|December 11, 2025
BELEAGUERED INDIGO IS preparing to tap pilot pools in South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines as it races to meet the February 10 deadline to comply with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation's revised flight duty time limitations (FDTL) rules, multiple people familiar with the airline's planning told FE.
The carrier needs to secure around 160 additional pilots by the cutoff date, and a sizeable share of that requirement may now be met through expatriate hiring.
This story is from the December 11, 2025 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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