They just called me this morning and left a voicemail asking if I was interested in a job after telling me I didn't meet their minimum heavy-time qualifications back at OBAP in April when I handed them a resume out of curiosity. Apparently they are starting to need people. I looked at their profile page here on APC and it was all discombobulated. It had old info and conflicting info about pay and housing. It said they were evicting people out of villas to move them to townhouses?! Any current info available? I've always heard they weren't worth it.

 

Go to PPRuNe and take a look there. After reading the threads on Emirates and learning how things are you'll never want to go to work there.

 

Very short of pilots. To be correct, many in company villas are being made to move to other company villas, as the leases expires of the original villas. Some had been in their villa for a decade or more and are being moved to "compound" like company villas. Some are townhouse like, some are villas. Luck of the draw. Many are remaining in their original villas and "opting out" of company accommodations and paying the rent via the accommodation allowance.

Rumors are 400 pilots short. Management is throwing out the concept of month on month off. Trying to buy some time perhaps for those submitting resignations. Will it happen? Every mgmt meeting with pilots, the subject is addressed by mgmt. Doubt it will happen until up to speed with numbers of pilots.

Come join. You will enjoy the 100+ hour months. Through vacation, training etc., there is always a way found to mitigate the 900 hr rolling yearly max.

Is it worth it? Depends of the definition of "worth" to you. No mortgages in the US, no ex-wives, no kids or just a small one or two (school fees not totally covered by EK), no wife......life can be good. A number of US captains are not leaving because they're not willing to start at the bottom flying a narrow body for half what they're making at EK, paying taxes, mortgages etc. Will the flying beat you up? It depends on what one's life style is like. Partying like it's 1999, it will "kill" you here.

There are many quite content here, enjoy the "adventure" and are planning to retire from it all at 50. Others with little or no retirement from previous airlines and over 50, might stay to the end.

In the end, it's an individual circumstance thing that will define if this is one's cup of tea. Bottom line, there are some that have no plans to leave, and there are some that absolutely hate everything about EK and Dubai. Like I said, individual circumstances.

 

Best response in regards to Emirates/expat job I have read. Same can be applied here, some people love working at Spirit, some hate it. Some love living in NYC flying for Delta, while others hate everything about NYC while living in their miserable crashpads. Emirates sounds like a great place to live out an adventure if one was single.

 

Thnx, but one thing I forgot to add. You are correct in your statement. If one has a young wife with a child or two, it can be quite tough on them. One would be away a lot with those hours, and need time to recoop. Meanwhile, young wife is dealing with many issues, and her mama ain't anywhere around to help out. It takes a tough spouse to endure the rigors of being a spouse of an EK pilot.

 

Just what I said a couple of months ago that a lot of folks said it would never happen...., what they won't ever allow to happen is to start parking airplanes

The word from a friend in the training department is that the failure rates are increasing as well so only to lower the requirements is not going to do if people fail the training...., eventually they will HAVE to offer commuting contracts!

 

Boeing 777-300ER involved.

Emirates airline confirms incident at Dubai airport

 

Wow, doesn't look good at all..Hope everyone makes it out safely

 

Thanks god all made it out OK!!!!
Also not 300ER, its a Straight 300, RR powered!!

 

Windshear reported all runways, 110/21 with tempo 350/15 (runways 12/30). 49 degrees today, probably hotter than that, this is a common summertime mid day phenomenon here.

Eye witness friend of mine saw a "hard landing and tail strike, then then the plane skidded on right side (gear collapse) and sheared the right engine off. came to rest with post crash fire and explosion from right wing"

All pax and crew reported to have evacuated safely