The nice lady who I met with did know the guy (she said his name, but I forgot it) that will be in NY with the cadet program but she didn't know any info on further stages, amount of cadets that will be selected, etc. She did advise me to practice my math though.
I think EYZ or someone mentioned how the roadshow was exlusively for pilots that already met the posted requirements on the etihad careers site.
I really hope this US roadshow won't attarct the Ace-hole pilots that live in the US.
Ok ive been to the UAE before and i know how these guys operate and if there were a thousand applications from uae nationals they would not be putting us ahead of them
You cannot forget that Emirates also has a cadet program for nationals only and it has been going on longer than Etihad's so naturally more natonals would goto Emirates. Only 20% of the UAE population are nationals. And the majority have money.
Think about it this way, what rich kid would want to give up driving his ferrari everyday to fly a plane on a schedule, doing a job where he is serving not himself, but others? That is probably why the Etihad cadet program has gone international. I was reading an artical about a female who is already in the cadet program and she said ever since she went on a zero-g flight at a UAE airshow in Al Ain she wanted to fly.....what teen can afford to go on those zero-g flights? and I think it was in a 727 those flights are pretty expensive. It's for reasons like this that Etihad wants you to pay them back for your training if you don't make it through! Ther are many who want to fly but not i nthe UAE.
And as far as your other comments Narayan, all I have to say is don't apply that'lll leave a higher chance for the rest of us to get through.