Pilot Training Placement

Indigo Airlines and Jet Airways both are two domestic airlines offering cadet pilot programmes. It commences from ab-initio and culminates at CPL and finally job with them. They do have Job guarantee. But the training cost is much higher as compared to outside in the market. For Jet Airways :
https://www.cae.com/civil-aviation/aviation-professionals/become-a-pilot/full-time-training/jet-airways-cadet-pilot-programme/
For Indigo International Pathway :
https://www.cae.com/civil-aviation/aviation-professionals/become-a-pilot/full-time-training/indigo-cadet-pilot-programme-international-pathway
For Indigo Domestic Pathway :
https://www.cae.com/civil-aviation/aviation-professionals/become-a-pilot/full-time-training/indigo-cadet-pilot-programme-domestic-pathway
Choose wisely and go ahead.
Good luck!

In a year, based on recent statistics, approximately 26 lakh graduates pass out of the Indian Education system. Can you guess how many of them ended up with a job (A job commensurate to their education) on completion of their graduation? 30%? 20%? Nope. An appalling 8%.
Of the 15000 odd CPL holders in India, roughly about 5000 are working in the airlines. So, you do the math and figure out, if it is as tough as otherwise to get a job.
Leaving the stat aside, how tough or how easy it is to make it big in any career, depends predominantly on your caliber and the quantum of effort that you put in to equip yourself to be among the best. I have come across tons of CPL holders who whinge about the competition in the job market in India. To them, I state one simple stat. In any recruitment drive conducted by a major airline in India, roughly 4000 odd CPL holders compete for 100 spots (which has been the case for the past 5-6 years), which means roughly 1 out of every 40 get a job. And, there are six major airlines, some of which conduct such recruitment drives all the year around. When you graduate with a degree from a college, you are looking at a competition of 1 in 10000 to land yourself a decent job. So, decide for yourself as to where the competition is at it's toughest. If you don't have it in you to be the best one among 40 candidates, then it is a tough luck. If you have it in you, then you are looking at an illustrious career, with everything being fed to you on a silver plate all through your life.
Yet again, people keep complaining, that only if you have a jack, you would be able to get into the major airlines, i.e complete BS. I have seen a lot of my friends get in simply without that, simply because they persevered. I myself had none, yet have worked with two of India's major carriers. It is sure, that jack works in aviation (where the hell doesn't it , in India), but that's not everything. You can be your own jack to get into an airline.

The job prospects in this section are immense with the advent of privatization in this industry. The job opportunities exist in both the government as well as private sectors. Major opportunities come up regularly in Government owned airlines, international and as well as private airlines. They have opportunity also where in large business houses have their own aircrafts.
As already mentioned, it is difficult to secure a CPL because of the regulations which are prevalent in this industry.
If a particular person gets a CPL,
The first stage is to work as a trainee
Thereafter one may be promoted to First officer
In this career, the seniority is based on the total hours of flying. Experience is the most predominant factor in this profession as this is a highly responsible job.

Hi Ishanuj,
You must have a minimum of 55% PCM in class 12th. If you are going to take your flying classes from government flying schools there will be an entrance test conducted by the Director General Civil Aviation or the DGCA. Being a pilot requires a lot of specialized technical training at various levels. In brief, the first level is that of a Student Pilot License (SPL), which allows the student to learn. After getting some training the student is provided with a Private Pilot License (PPL), which allows him to captain an aircraft without passengers. After gaining some training and experience he has to qualify for the Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL), which allows him to captain an aircraft with passengers. This license is provided by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. The CPL endorses what aircraft you can fly. Most importantly you must be physically fit and you must undergo a medical test. Please read my article here:
https://www.shiksha.com/aviation/flying-pilot-training/articles/career-in-commercial-flying-all-you-need-to-know-blogId-13472#blogCommentSection

Commercial Pilot Licence with Instrument Rating (CPL/IR) - The traditional ab-initio method of training pilots for the airlines. The CPL/IR are the bare necessities for anyone thinking of a career in the airlines. Trainees spend about 200 hours training on small general aviation aircraft. While in Singapore we think of commercial pilots only as those who helm the large jets taking off and landing at Changi, the term 'commercial pilot' technically means any pilot who flies for financial compensation (pay) for their services which can range from corporate jet charters to crop-dusting.
Anyway, to get to the airlines, CPL/IR holders must adapt from operating in a GA environment (single crew, piston engines) to an airline environment (multi-crew, turbine engine) by doing a Jet Orientation and Multi-Crew Coordination (JOC/MCC) and a type rating course (typically $20-50k on top of CPL/IR if not sponsored by airline). A type rating is like a special add-on to the licence allowing the holder to fly ONE specific aeroplane (eg: B737 TR allows you to fly only Boeing 737s.) To move on to another aircraft type, such as say, an A320, the pilot will have to get another type rating. After going through all this, the pilot starts off his/her airline career as a second officer (first on smaller airlines).
As far as the differences between the Singaporean (CAAS) and Australian (CASA) courses go, I think the Singaporean (CAAS) course comes with ATPL theory while the Australian (CASA) one does not, and on top of that, you need to do a conversion to use a CASA licence in Singapore.
Air-Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) - Is the pinnacle of pilot licencing. It essentially allows a holder to be in command of a scheduled air career's aircraft (in English: airline captain). A CPL holder receives a 'frozen ATPL' upon passing all required ATPL exams (yet still essentially holds a CPL holder on paper). After logging 1500 hours, he/she 'unfreezes' this and receives all unconditional privileges of the ATPL.
The ATPL (Air Transport Pilot License) Theory course you mentioned is essentially what it says it is - a theory course covering all the relavant ATPL theory. With that being said, I believe this course is part of the CAAS CPL/IR course.
Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) - Because of the anticipated rapid growth in global air travel, ICAO devised an alternative all-in flight-training method to streamline pilot hopefuls to the airlines to meet these demands. If the CPL/IR is a cheesebur