Greetings, I applied at Emirates about a month ago and my status now shows me as "short listed" do you guys have any info about time frames for the whole process?
Kind regards

 

Sorry for the dumb question but what is "short listed"?

 

There is no such a thing as a dumb question... I had to google it myself...
Shortlisted:
"A list of preferable items or candidates that have been selected for final consideration, as in making an award or filling a position."

 

Did you ask this question on the Foreign airlines thread? There are plenty of EK guys that better suited to answer that question...and plenty more.

 

What are your qualifications? Email the HR rep. She told me they have thousand of apps with thousands of hours in a Boeing or airbus. You can get short listed with heavy RJ time but you won't get an interview.

 

10000 total, 4500 PIC heavy Jet, MD11 Capt.

 

Heavy RJ? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. But then again they don't really have regional jets in the UAE so the folks at Emirates wouldn't really understand the similarities and differences between say a E145 and an E170.

 

Many of the ME airlines require (and count only) time in types that are 50k pounds or above, at least for your, say, turbine PIC. A "heavy" RJ, then, is one with such characteristics. Emirates well understands what an RJ is, and knows which is which. I understand that many try to pass EMB145 time off as "50,000 pounds". It doesn't work.

 

I understand their definition of a "heavy RJ", it's the rationale behind it that I don't understand. To assume that an E-170 pilot is somehow better prepared to fly a 777 or an A330 than an E-145 pilot is like assuming that someone that flew a Baron is better prepared to fly an RJ than someone who flew a Seminole. When you're making that big of a jump in terms of size, whether it be 5,000lbs to 50,000lbs or 50,000lbs to 500,000lbs, you're really splitting hairs when talking about coming from essentially the same class of aircraft to something so much larger.

Ultimately what I have seen is that when a person comes to a regional airline with nothing but twin-engine piston time, it doesn't really matter what type of piston it was, only how much time they have in it and what type of flying they did. Even people coming from larger piston aircraft like C-402s don't seem to have any more of an edge than those who only flew Seminoles and Senecas - either way it's a huge jump to a much larger and faster RJ. I would imagine that RJ to wide body is much the same type of gap in that that twenty thousand pounds or so between a 145 and a 170 don't really mean much.

 

+1 on everything you said. Unfortunately, you're preaching to the choir here. It's a pretty silly rule. Aren't all the CRJ's the same type rating anyway?