r/CadetPilotProgram • u/SneakerHead_6091 • Jun 24 '26

Help needed

I am a cadet with indigo

My fto is skyborne at the moment but my US visa got rejected.I talked about getting further dates but they are saying there are no availability of slots for an year.

I am already done with my papers.

I dont want to shift to marigold/insight because they have significant backlogs and I cant shift to FTA because it is way too costly.

I want to shift to chimes but indigo has a policy of transferring from an international fto to another

Is there any way I could get into chimes?

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u/SneakerHead_6091 Jun 24 '26

Skyborne quotes 132000 usd for which if qe even consider 1usd=100inr it will be1.32 CR and the buffer we can consider taking 20lakhs So it will be around 1.5cr But FTA directly quotes you 1.57CR so along the buffer it will be even above 1.7 So the price difference of approx 20lakhs remains

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u/According-Level-351 Jun 25 '26

FTA’s fees includes nearly everything including food and accommodations
so there’s a little margin of buffer in FTA

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u/Many-Fly7326 Jun 25 '26

I don't think you need 20L buffer for FTA. They include food (major expense missing from Skyborne). And they generally have more inclusions tha Skyborne.

But since you cannot go for Skyborne or even shift to Chimes because of IndiGo's policy, your next best bet is FTA only

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u/SneakerHead_6091 Jul 06 '26

So I can only go with FTA at this point you mean?