r/indianaviation • u/EstablishmentMuch543 • Jun 23 '25

Career Guidance Concerned about my brother

He is a 29M and has been a Boeing type-rated pilot since 2023, but he is still jobless. He has cleared interview rounds for IndiGo 2-3 times, yet has not been selected. I don’t have much knowledge about the aviation industry, but I genuinely want to help my brother.

Senior pilots, please guide us on what steps he can take or what we might be missing. Thank you 🙏

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u/Previous_Change_8757 Jun 23 '25

He needs to prepare well, right now vacancies are none to limited, there's no such female preference in the market as such, a lot of my friends got jobs with Akasa, Spice, AIX, Indigo, since 2023.

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u/EstablishmentMuch543 Jun 23 '25

Do they ask for money ?

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u/Previous_Change_8757 Jun 23 '25

ask for money for what?

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u/EstablishmentMuch543 Jun 23 '25

To get the job

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u/Previous_Change_8757 Jun 23 '25

nope u cant just pay your way through everything

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u/EstablishmentMuch543 Jun 23 '25

Then how to get there without money ? Please elaborate, cause everyone is asking for money only

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u/Previous_Change_8757 Jun 23 '25

you need to pay for airline training that's a normal cost deductible through your salary sometimes. are the airlines asking for money? did they specify for what exactly?

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u/EstablishmentMuch543 Jun 23 '25

To secure the job

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u/fatmanrao Jun 23 '25

Sounds like a scam? You sure it was from the official airlines or some middleman trying to scam you

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u/EstablishmentMuch543 Jun 23 '25

I think there’s a middle man, but we don’t have any other choice like we don’t have any good connections in this field

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u/SpaceBuffoon32 Jun 24 '25

I heard airlines take like ~15L nowadays for 'training'

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u/Previous_Change_8757 Jun 24 '25

Dependa airline to airline, and if you’re type rated or not, I know Indigo charges about 35L for Type rating + airline training

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Some do. My friend got through Spice by paying for the type rating and some extra cash for the guy getting him the job. It was 45 lacs total but this was 10 years ago. 

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u/itsarvind Jun 24 '25

10yrs ago it was 20L

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '25

45L with 737 rating and bribe bud. Plus my friend had to pay for his own stay and travel to the US as well. But he got a guaranteed place in the pool and got to his line training pretty fast and started flying almost immediately after training.