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11-11-2019, 12:56 AM
#2371
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Joined APC: Nov 2016
Position: Old and Unemployed
Posts: 107
Okay, maybe I didn’t make it clear enough. I just finished up two new hire FOs who were not previously 777/787 qualified. One 737 guy and one 767. Although prior 777/787 is a definite plus, it is not an exclusive requirement. Put your name in the hat. No app, no job...
11-11-2019, 09:21 AM
#2372
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Joined APC: Apr 2016
Posts: 829
Originally Posted by ocskyguy
Okay, maybe I didn’t make it clear enough. I just finished up two new hire FOs who were not previously 777/787 qualified. One 737 guy and one 767. Although prior 777/787 is a definite plus, it is not an exclusive requirement. Put your name in the hat. No app, no job...
11-11-2019, 01:24 PM
#2373
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Joined APC: Mar 2012
Position: Gear Slinger
Posts: 708
Originally Posted by goinaround
Yeah but a regional captain is likely not going to have Boeing glass time....
11-11-2019, 03:50 PM
#2374
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: 747 captain
Posts: 1,549
Originally Posted by MoarAlpha
Part 129 time doesn't seem to get you very far when coming back to the US.
I don't mean to contradict you is just that I haven't seen any issues for people wanting to come back!
11-11-2019, 04:42 PM
#2375
Tuberriffic
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: Hopefully the bunk
Posts: 222
Honestly, it seems to me the fundamental problem is that expats generally have fewer networking opportunities than stateside pilots, or at least fewer convenient ones. The percentage of pilots who get their dream job having done nothing but fill out the online app is vanishingly low, after all.
Exceptions to this expat generality would be shops with reasonable commuting contracts (allowing pilots to play the game on days off) and shops with an established history of people already making the jump (allowing current employees to network through the pipeline). I believe AJX qualifies on both counts, which is why your mileage may vary.
Exceptions to this expat generality would be shops with reasonable commuting contracts (allowing pilots to play the game on days off) and shops with an established history of people already making the jump (allowing current employees to network through the pipeline). I believe AJX qualifies on both counts, which is why your mileage may vary.
11-11-2019, 06:27 PM
#2376
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: 747 captain
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Originally Posted by thepotato232
Honestly, it seems to me the fundamental problem is that expats generally have fewer networking opportunities than stateside pilots, or at least fewer convenient ones.
Maybe, just maybe! The whole "working abroad" disadvantage is just a bunch of nonsense.
11-11-2019, 06:41 PM
#2377
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Joined APC: Mar 2012
Position: Gear Slinger
Posts: 708
Originally Posted by The Dominican
I don't understand why people believe this, Maybe is just a notion that has been passed along on the net so people believe is true? I don't really know but over the years, everybody that I know that wanted to go back state side haven't had any more issues getting interviews than your regular pilot working at the regionals or the ACMI's or charter, several of the captains at my outfit had gone to UPS, DAL & UAL recently! It took them some time (16 to 20 months) But isn't that the average time even from another company in the US?
I don't mean to contradict you is just that I haven't seen any issues for people wanting to come back!
I don't mean to contradict you is just that I haven't seen any issues for people wanting to come back!
I saw many former Emirates guys at my previous regional recently. Maybe they just didn't want to wait for one of the big 3 to call, I'm not sure. They were a mix of FOs and street CAs as well. I know one Australian guy that was really ****ed off they wouldn't let him be a street CA because he had 11,000 hours in ATRs or Dash 8s over there and he didn't qualify to be a CA here and thought he deserved a waiver to upgrade. That guy was an oddball though.
I believe most of the guys coming back from over there have 1000 Part 121, or 1000 TPIC Part 121 so they should qualify for most jobs here.
11-11-2019, 10:27 PM
#2380
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Position: Gear Slinger
Posts: 708
Originally Posted by No Land 3
We have a ton of expats, turboprop guys hired on the past two years with no prior 121 time.
Originally Posted by The Dominican
Pilots on the expat market have decades in the business the basic requirement to become an expat pilot is experience, they have enough low time pilots, that experience brings the network since people we have flown with and even trained are now in positions at the majors, not sure your theory holds water!
Maybe, just maybe! The whole "working abroad" disadvantage is just a bunch of nonsense.
Maybe, just maybe! The whole "working abroad" disadvantage is just a bunch of nonsense.
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