The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India’s Civil Aviation regulator, as of the 6th of December, has already issued 1,081 licenses, passing through the 1,000 benchmark. With the year coming to a close, it is expected that the regulator will have over 1,100 licenses issued for the entire year.

In the first half of the year, the DGCA issued 699 Commercial Pilot Licenses (CPLs).

In 2019, 744 CPLs were issued while the year after there were 578. Last year, there were 862 CPLs issuances.

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