Originally Posted by
twobecrazy
How do foreign carriers feel about prior military guys? To clarify I was never a military pilot.
For what I have seen, typically military only times are not accepted at most airlines that hire US pilots on the international market, but coupled with airline times then they do consider it as part of the pilots overall resume.
Sarcasm noted... That being said I've seen some pretty shady repair work on airplanes in the past from other countries. I'm not saying I haven't Jerry rigid something to get by for a flight but not to the level I have seen in planes from other countries. So I believe my question is relevant.
This is most certainly another area in which generalization doesn't work, maintenance in airlines in the Middle East, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and many airlines in China (yes, China) have an excellent maintenance program. The maintenance here at the ANA group is far beyond anything that I have experienced in any airline in the US, I come across an MEL here 2 or 3 times a year, in the 6+ years that I have been here, I have never done a cross bleed start, not even once, when AD's come out, they do them right away and none of that asking for extensions nonsense and threats from the FAA to ground the airplanes and fines due to shady maintenance record keeping that you have seen in the past against many airlines in the US.