Air Transat
 

Looking through the airline profiles on the home page, I came across a Canadian company called Air Transat. The starting wages look extremely competitive. Is it fairly easy for an American with the standard US ratings/qualifications to get a job flying for a Canadian airline?

USMCFLYR

they highly value french language...

It's been talked about here a few times as far as what an American has to do to go to work for a Canadian airline. Typical, right to work/right to abode and license conversion. But I thought I heard that the "landed immigrant" thing was slightly easier than some other countries. Could be wrong.

And as far as Air Transat and speaking French goes, don't know. They may value glider time in addition to French language skills.

That's a joke, there's probably a BUNCH of people that won't get it.

Sacre Bleu!!!!!!!!!

Glider time, that's a good one.

But seriously, the French language thing went the way of the wind long ago. I know as a few of my mates from Kelowna Flightcraft went there many years ago, and none could speak decent French.

That's OK, not even French Canadians can speak decent French. Just ask somebody from France, he'll tell you.

I thought about making that point but then thought better. . . 'surprised you haven't been launched on really. Perhaps not many French Canadians here.

Yeah, me too. But the satire isn't slanted towards French Canadians, although in the time I spent there my feelings could STRONGLY go either way. More so one way than the other compated many other places I have been, like New Zealand. The women are beau coup attractive though.

I saw a comedian sum it up once, and I thought quite well. I'll paraphrase;

French Canada is like France in some ways, and different in others, ALL of the attitude but NONE of the scenery.

The joke was against the French people that think they are above the French Canadians, and think that the French they speak there is so bastardized that it's not "worthy" of their standard.

Which ironically as one linguistic teacher pointed out, is also wrong. With France and all the French accents and pronounciations, the best if from Tours; the worst from Alsace-Lorraine.

And the Parisians think Paris and France are interchangable nations and not Paris is a city in France. A great example is this; go to Disney World's French section and ask one of the "locals" where are you from. If they say France and what part; they are French. If they say Paris and not a mention of France well, they are solely Parisian.

Yeah, Paris would probably be pretty cool if it wasn't for all the Parisians.

Sacre Bleu!!!!!!!!!!

Koru,

Are you from the Okanagan?

I was in YVR this weekend (fun). We were sampling some great Okanagan wines. Man!