For those that have gone abroad to fly for emirates. What kind of background did you have to land the job?

Try pprune.org

Why?

There are plenty of current and former EK pilots here on APC as well as some of the best threads on EK without all the garbage/static of PPrune.

That has been a moving target for the last 13 years. At first they would not hire Americans, circa 2002. It took a lot of pushing in late 2002 and early 2003 then they finally started hiring in relevant numbers by the summer of 2003. At that time the guys were all high time major airline. There was a brief window of RJ pilot hiring before a 30 tonne rule was instituted and lasted for many years. Good friend of mine from ACA/Independence got the call right after getting onto the A320. Pure military, pure turboprop, or pure corporate had no chance. One had to have civilian multi-crew airline time over 30 tonnes, preferably B737NG or A320 and above. Also had to have 4000 hours total time and 2000 jet. That was later reduced to 2500 if it was all in a 737NG or A320 (read RyanAir and EasyJet)

Nowadays it has changed. I believe the 30 tonne rule is finally gone and turboprop guys are being hired. Not sure about the pure military or pure corporate being changed, but they like civilian airline multi-crew cockpit time as a preference.

That all said. Why anyone would go there now would be a mystery. What I said here back in 2005-2009ish was it's a good job for those of us furloughed from a U.S. major; stuck at a stagnant regional; airline out of business (ATA, etc); or bailed from your major early with a lump sum and want to work a few more years. That was because in those years the carriers in the States were in bankruptcy and doing little to no hiring. Things have turned around in the States now so the majors and some of the LLCs are a far better option than Emirates.

The other part is that Emirates was a different company to work for back then. It was actually a really good job in 2002/2003 and for a number of years after that. Conditions have changed dramatically for the worse since then though. They just chipped away slowly at the benefits and working conditions to the point that it is mostly known as intolerable now.


Typhoonpilot

Everything Typhoon said, though if you have an ATP with Airbus 320 or 330, or Boeing 777 or 737 type with time in the aircraft?

I'd say your odds of getting an email are very high.

You really.... and I mean REALLY should not consider Emirates. It has turned into nothing more than a slave ship mentality.

Those poor guys are flying upwards of 95 and 100 hours a month doing long haul, all night turns, short haul, daytime, nighttime/nighttime daytime mix that will sooner kill you without you even being aware of it..... all with the comment from EK that, "It's legal".

Total and complete farce from what it used to be when I was hired there a decade ago.

I was one of the lucky ones who escaped with my health mostly intact.

Think very very hard before going to EK. Marketing there is the best I've ever seen and they will make it seem like nirvana.

Just stay away from them. If Etihad is hiring (which I don't think they are), they'd be the only ones I'd recommend.

Kap
ex EK slave

Kap, where'd ya end up at?

They are getting desperate enough that they are searching Linkedin and sending unsolicited recruitment emails.

I think he's at Turkish if I'm not mistaken

Yes, I'm dodging bombs and avoiding government coup's at Turkish.

Other than that, it's a great gig!! :-)

Kap

Sooo.. not unlike driving emirates road through sharjah at 18:00?