SEPfield

Hello Gentlemen,

Summer's nearly over and it's time to get serious again. I have just finished updating my app with AJX and resubmitting.

I have reached the conclusion that for my particular lifestyle ( no wife, no kids) commuting to Japan will be better than commuting 6 times a month at a US legacy. If they even ever decide to call me.

I was wondering if there was anything new or noteworthy going on over there?
Do you guys have any kind of shipping discount? UPS or FedEx?

Any former EK guys that could PM me?

Crazy Canuck

I think his post comes from the American mantra of "my seniority number, my job." Nothing is performance based here. It's all based on longevity. Which of course has it's good and bad.

PappyBoyington

Uhhh, I really hope you don't believe that Canuk..... EVERYTHING is based off of performance, in front of the Japanese! Longevity has nothing to do with it. It's how you play the game, do the IP's like you, and DO THE J's LIKE YOU. We have over a 55% fail rate on upgrades last year, and what do they do?? They put us up to a 6 month eval process to include 2 months of self study. Why did they do that? Because guys were showing up not prepared on the books. Play the damn game, cross the I's and dot the the T's. That's the way it goes over here! If you don't follow that, then you'll never upgrade here. Play the game my friend........

jrmyl

Pappy, I think Canuck was talking about the way things are done in the US, not Japan. At least that is the way I read it. But you are correct in what you were saying as far as guys being unprepared.

1rogerover1

A little late post. If you look at the stats, the upgrade eval pass rate in the past was a lot higher when we were hiring guys who had previous left seat experience - or if not, many years flying experience. That is not the case anymore. Majority of the pilots we hire now barely meet the hiring requirements, let alone any prior left seat experience. We even have pilots who were Second Officers, Cruise pilots, Food Boy, whatever you want to call them; so no real stick time.

So it is imperative, as stated before, to be at the very least be prepared on the books. Be sure to dot the i's and cross the t's. Don't cross your i's and dot the t's (as Pappy suggested). It'll get you into trouble real quick. And, to fly the way the Japanese fly - by the numbers, all sequenced, and without too much variation from "their way" of flying. You'll do fine if, you fly like a robot the way they teach you during sim and line training and know how to decipher the Skew-T and analyze all the wriggly lines on the wx charts so you can predict when and where the turbulence will start and end. Plus, be sure to add 2% N1 for every 1 degree of pitch and 1 degree of bank when landing cross-controlled in a crosswind - during FLARE. Then after you upgrade, you can actually fly the airplane and they'll leave you alone.

We have too many guys here now who talk the talk but cannot walk the walk. Simple. Young, immature, earbuds wearing punkass kids who can't stay away from their iPhones while walking one minute to the gate and who think the world revolves around them. But I guess every airline has that nowadays...Unfortunately...

Good luck. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The Dominican

I can sense that you have something you want to say....! Don't hold back man...., tell us how you really feel.....!

Probe

I believe the proper technical term is "Millennial".

1rogerover1

I was actually holding back Dom... Ah, that's the word I was looking for. But they are good kids at heart for the most part.

tgec

News:
Some of you insiders may already know this, but this line "Take your career to new heights with Air Japan, introducing the 787 by 2020. " was added to the CREW page.
http://www.crewresourcesworldwide.com/jobs
I guess AJX won't just slowly become a cargo only operator like some have speculated.

The Dominican

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTOeuH-iEJ8