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Old 05-21-2006, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by AirWillie
I think people have forgot to mention that most of these arlines with an exception of few such as Cathay and Emirates, require you to have some experience around 500 hours in the planes you will be flying. I was looking at the Singapore website and it said that you need 500 hour of 747/a340 and typerating experience to qualify. I was thinking to myself if I already was flying the 747/a340 why would I look for a job there?
Does'nt take much to get on with Emirates. An USAF buddy of mine quit NWA and started with Emirates May 1st. He had 10 yrs in with NWA and had been a flight engineer on the 727, DC-10, and 747-200 for the entire time except for 1 month when he was an f/o on the -200 (was displaced back to f/e).
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