Foreign airlines that have US bases?
#11
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No expats at JAL that I know of. All expats were let go a few years ago. Even Japanese JAL pilots have been looking for work elsewhere. ANA is the carrier that hires expats in Japan. Them and a few others. Go through WASINC, Hawaii Aviation, PARC, or CReW for more info.
The Dominican will know more. That's his area of expertise.
Typhoonpilot
The Dominican will know more. That's his area of expertise.
Typhoonpilot
#14
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#15
No expats at JAL that I know of. All expats were let go a few years ago. Even Japanese JAL pilots have been looking for work elsewhere. ANA is the carrier that hires expats in Japan. Them and a few others. Go through WASINC, Hawaii Aviation, PARC, or CReW for more info.
The Dominican will know more. That's his area of expertise.
Typhoonpilot
The Dominican will know more. That's his area of expertise.
Typhoonpilot
ANA mainline does not employ any expats. Air Japan, an ANA subsidiary operating freighter and pax B767's, does on a contract basis.
I thought The Dominican was at JAL.
A couple of companies now training their first groups of pilots, Peach and Air Asia Japan from the ANA side (Peach will be managed under the "umbrella" and Air Asia will have the support of ANA but will be managed by the Air Asia group) and Jet Star Japan from the JAL side (guy defecting from Skymark to go to this outfit) speaking of Skymark, they now hire DEC's up to 60 years old and no time on type, a couple guys that I know went there as DEC's with regional time.
Out of all of these jobs that are currently available and starting up, only Air Japan (ANA group) is on a commuting basis and none of them have bases in the US
#16
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Joined APC: Dec 2011
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Dominican - thanks for the update on the Japanese market - much appreciated to hear what's going on.
Speaking of Japan and news, (since you guys are closer to the action than I am), have you heard of anything going on at NCA? It's very difficult to scavenge any news from any of the forums that I know of...
(I have a lot of 744 time and looking to move on... I've even thought about trying out at your outfit... my wife and I are still weighing out the Pro's and Con's on that one).
thanks !
Speaking of Japan and news, (since you guys are closer to the action than I am), have you heard of anything going on at NCA? It's very difficult to scavenge any news from any of the forums that I know of...
(I have a lot of 744 time and looking to move on... I've even thought about trying out at your outfit... my wife and I are still weighing out the Pro's and Con's on that one).
thanks !
#18
Dominican - thanks for the update on the Japanese market - much appreciated to hear what's going on.
Speaking of Japan and news, (since you guys are closer to the action than I am), have you heard of anything going on at NCA? It's very difficult to scavenge any news from any of the forums that I know of...
(I have a lot of 744 time and looking to move on... I've even thought about trying out at your outfit... my wife and I are still weighing out the Pro's and Con's on that one).
thanks !
Speaking of Japan and news, (since you guys are closer to the action than I am), have you heard of anything going on at NCA? It's very difficult to scavenge any news from any of the forums that I know of...
(I have a lot of 744 time and looking to move on... I've even thought about trying out at your outfit... my wife and I are still weighing out the Pro's and Con's on that one).
thanks !
About AJX, be mindful that due to the merging of the passenger and cargo operations, now we are doing most back of the clock, two sectors in the middle of the night with 2 to 4 hour sit in our sorting station in Okinawa, that sort of thing, so quality of life has decreased substantially (the cozy life style we been enjoying for the past 5 years is gone, good things never last in this business) although now we are able to bid for 14 days off in a row (you will be home 12 or 13, depending where you commute to) but now we are actually working for a living, many changes from night to day operations since they are mixing passenger and cargo flights on the same trip and they give you only 24 hours in between, fatiguing and inefficient, the rosters leave a lot to be desired lately..
#19
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I got together with some of them last month and apparently they will start taking delivery of the 748 by this year, they will start hiring again as a result and for what they tell me, they will open the opportunity to folks that are not typed on the 74, we didn't talk too much shop that night (one too many Asahi dry pitchers rolling around) I'll try to see if I can get some specifics when I hit the town again, Narita that is because I doubt I'll be getting any intel in Bangkok.
About AJX, be mindful that due to the merging of the passenger and cargo operations, now we are doing most back of the clock, two sectors in the middle of the night with 2 to 4 hour sit in our sorting station in Okinawa, that sort of thing, so quality of life has decreased substantially (the cozy life style we been enjoying for the past 5 years is gone, good things never last in this business) although now we are able to bid for 14 days off in a row (you will be home 12 or 13, depending where you commute to) but now we are actually working for a living, many changes from night to day operations since they are mixing passenger and cargo flights on the same trip and they give you only 24 hours in between, fatiguing and inefficient, the rosters leave a lot to be desired lately..
About AJX, be mindful that due to the merging of the passenger and cargo operations, now we are doing most back of the clock, two sectors in the middle of the night with 2 to 4 hour sit in our sorting station in Okinawa, that sort of thing, so quality of life has decreased substantially (the cozy life style we been enjoying for the past 5 years is gone, good things never last in this business) although now we are able to bid for 14 days off in a row (you will be home 12 or 13, depending where you commute to) but now we are actually working for a living, many changes from night to day operations since they are mixing passenger and cargo flights on the same trip and they give you only 24 hours in between, fatiguing and inefficient, the rosters leave a lot to be desired lately..
#20
They need desperately to get trip pairing and scheduling software to be able to reduce the fatigue and make rosters that make more sense, to give them some credit, they are making an effort but they haven't reached the inevitable conclusion that scheduling by hand is just not going to get the productivity and efficiency that could be achieved by doing it electronically. The situation with the declining in value of the US dollar is a big issue and the fact that the head hunters are sending emails to anybody that has heavy time is not helping to curtail the attrition that we have been experiencing lately. At least they understand the situation but like everything else around here, the solution will come from Haneda.
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