Emirates pulls the plug on the Pool
08-22-2009 | 02:11 PM
#31
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From: B757/767
How many applicants actually go to EK with just RJ experience, I'm thinking it's mostly US pilots since the 737/A320 is the RJ of the rest of the world. Hmm........... a conspiracy?? Minus the absence of RNAV and AT, a CRJ and ERJ systems are the same as any other widebody airplane. I would buy "wide body or INT" experience but to exlude RJ pilots is BS.
Plus, I don't of ANY RJ's that DON'T have RNAV capabilities.
08-22-2009 | 02:33 PM
#32
Eats shoots and leaves...
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From: Didactic Synthetic Aviation Experience Provider
That doesn't mean it's right. It's a cost of doing business - you want me to fly halfway around the world, you should provide a seat on your aircraft to get me there. That's really not too much to ask. I don't care how they did if for years, show some respect for the people you might like to hire instead of putting an undue burden on their back.
08-22-2009 | 03:58 PM
#33
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Excluding RJ pilots has nothing really to do with experience and everything to do with attitude and maturity.
If you've been a 121 Captain for even a couple of years, then you'll have dealt with the same cr@ppy weather, delays, diversions, trailer park pax, broken aircraft, etc etc, that we all have.
So I'm pretty sure it comes down attitude and maturity. Just look at some of the opinions and views that are expressed on this board.
I'm one of the 50 or so guys supposedly still treading water in the pool and to be honest, with everything that's been going on at EK over the last 6 months, I'm not exactly upset about the way things have turned out.
If you've been a 121 Captain for even a couple of years, then you'll have dealt with the same cr@ppy weather, delays, diversions, trailer park pax, broken aircraft, etc etc, that we all have.
So I'm pretty sure it comes down attitude and maturity. Just look at some of the opinions and views that are expressed on this board.
I'm one of the 50 or so guys supposedly still treading water in the pool and to be honest, with everything that's been going on at EK over the last 6 months, I'm not exactly upset about the way things have turned out.
08-22-2009 | 05:06 PM
#34
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From: B-737NG preferably in first class with a glass of champagne and caviar
Fly Dubai would be a bad deal here, let alone moving your family overseas for it! Ken Gile is part of the management team there... enough said. He's the guy who left southwest to help start Skybus - and lied through his teeth there, too. Nothing but one-way relationships, broken promises, and poor management desicions. (Maybe that's why he went half way around the world to stay in the aviation business!!)
08-23-2009 | 12:20 AM
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From: 747 captain
Everything in this business is based on supply and demand, there are simply too many experienced pilots out there looking for jobs right now and I believe that the rumors are just that, rumors. I don't have any insiders view of training in EK but judging by the success rate here at AJV/AJX I suspect that RJ pilots didn't do any worst than any other pilot. This economical downturn will recuperate sooner rather than later and you will see not only RJ pilots hired again but also DEC's hired again from the regionals. In the upswing they will hire anyone with a pulse.
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