National Airlines (ex-Murray Air YIP);Discuss
05-14-2012, 12:40 PM
#42
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Originally Posted by Radials Rule
I haven't a dog in this fight either. In the interest contributing, I was just relaying info given to me that was relevant to the thread topic. I never said or even implied that one was "better" than the other.
05-15-2012, 09:40 AM
#45
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They are national crews and they are national aircraft I meet some of the crew in DXB looks like the 747 are over seas a lot they have always been owned by national the iceland thing was to get up and going now they are N tail they now even have a pax 757 flying reg sch flights 7 days a week for the mil . Looks like they are doing some flying most government contract stuff all the names they go to end in Stan lol good group of pilot I don't know more than what they said but good guy. Their is a cool picture of one of the 747 on the ramp in Japan cool paint job for a cargo aircraft . They also told me they have a few 757 combi coming soon more government work Im guessing .
07-10-2012, 07:58 AM
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I have a friend working there. He talked to the Chief Pilot, who wrote to me and said that they are using an agency in the UK for all pilot employment and all new-hire pilots will be based in Dubai. Straight from the horse's mouth as of late June.
07-10-2012, 10:38 AM
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how are they gonna work that .....Dubai crew base.... guess that will preclude them having to buy tickets each way each month for all their crew members.... saw one of their gucci jets in LGG last month for several days.
07-10-2012, 02:30 PM
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They have been recruiting furloughed World guys pretty good. $550 a day for Dubai based captains. 20 on/ 10 off. No word on FO pay.
They have been recruiting furloughed World guys pretty good. $550 a day for Dubai based captains. 20 on/ 10 off. No word on FO pay.
Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo
I have a friend working there. He talked to the Chief Pilot, who wrote to me and said that they are using an agency in the UK for all pilot employment and all new-hire pilots will be based in Dubai. Straight from the horse's mouth as of late June.
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