stoki

That sounds like a first for a Middle East carrier.

Where did you hear this?

Sounds like they have NO shortage of qualified applicants then, which is hardly surprising.

Natca

flydubai and CTC have introduced from July 1st 2014 a change to the way in which the selection process is managed. As we deal with large numbers of applicants, the administration cost of selection amounts to many thousands of pounds per selected candidate.

We do not think it's fair to ask only the successful ones to have to pay for all those that apply, so we ask everyone who attends assessment to contribute. We therefore now charge a selection fee of £210 inclusive of VAT to cover the cost of some industry-standard assessment tests and simulator assessments.

Please note: candidates who are not successful at selection, but are invited to re-apply at a future date, the re-application fee is £110.00 including VAT.

proskuneho

How much does flydubai pay during new-hire training?

Flitestar

For FOs, per month:

Basic Salary: $4,628

Transportation Allowance: $544

Housing Allowance: $3,430 (This you will get starting on your third month if you elected to stay on company accommodation for the first 30 days, or you will start getting it on your second month if instead you decided to get your own housing for the first 30 days.)

Basically you get paid full salary except Flight Pay.

teamflyer

would q400 time be considered... it over 10 tons and multicrew efis turboprop..? or are they only taking jet time?

Flitestar

Yup, they'll take turboprop.

My sim partner had only dash-8 time and q400.

Cruz5350

Of that $3430 will there be any leftover money if you choose to stay on the company accommodation?

Flitestar

There's no company accommodation. They will give you the money in advanced per your specific rental agreement with your landlord (no less than two payments in a year).

You choose to live wherever you want.

Whatever you don't spend off of that allowance is yours to keep.

Fetzervalve

Flitestar,

Thank you for the detailed information. Very helpful. You read a lot of conflicting info on Pprune and your perspective is valued.

A couple of questions:

1. What proportion of your flying is Redeye flying?
2. Since layovers are nonexistent or very rare, how many days per week do you typically fly?
3. What is the projected upgrade time for newhires these days?
4. Lastly, do you see much movement from FD to EK? Is there a formal/informal hiring agreement between the two for those interested?

Flitestar

No worries, I had to dodge a lot of BS too in the other forum to try to get the facts when I was considering FD, figured I'd try to give my .02 cents and help out those coming after me.

1). Well, we don't have "red eyes" per se. We don't deal with all-night flights and then landing 3 time zones ahead/behind (a là JFK-LAX kinda deal...)' but we do have lots of night flying. When you are on the night shift you start your shift on most of the turns somewhere between 18:00 to 24:00 and will be back into DXB anywhere from 01:00 to 9:00 To this day I've only had to do one flight that had me flying all night, all the other were short flights that brought me back no later than 3am, not that there aren't any, there's many, but it guess it's been luck of the draw for a junior guy like me.

2). As a junior pilot, you'll get at least 10 days off, now you'll have a few "rest days, I.e. If you have done 3 late night shifts you will need a "rest day" before you can do a fourth one, so you get a day off in between kinda deal. Also, everybody in the pilot list does 2-3 days of reserve a month, they don't build reserve lines for the junior guys, everybody chips in. Between days off, rest days and reserve days that I didnt get used I had 14 days off on my first month on the line right out of OE. Ymmv.

Fwiw, on my first few months in FD they gave me half of the flying during the day and the other half during night time.

3). Word is 2-3 years.

4). Not as much movement as there used to be. Conditions have deteriorated a lot in EK in the last few months, upgrade takes too long these days and the pay is pretty much the same, the appeal to go to EK has decreased a good bit. When I joined there's was a 3 year agreement were you could not jump ship to EK until then, I've heard it has increased, but I'm not entirely sure, it could still be 3 years. With that said, if flying big iron and long haul is your priority, EK is easily at your reach after your bond is up.

FS