SAA/Express Hiring

[122.900]

Does anyone have information on the hiring process at SAA and SAA Express? What occurs? What are they looking for?
Thank you,
122.900

[AleaJactaEst]

You can do better than SAX. You will encounter amongst the Captains and management, especially instructors, very big egos blustering along in little aeroplanes.

[122.900]

Thats life, every group has a jackass or 5

[skychick2]

SAX was a very pleasant airline to work for and I can recommend it to anyone,like 122,90 says"you will get a jackass or 5 everywhere"

[chrislikesblue]

Anyone knows their recruitment contact?Would they hire foreigners?

[i-Robot]

If you obtain a residency permit, foreigners are hired at SAX.

[nugpot]

Anyone knows their recruitment contact?Would they hire foreigners?

I-robot is right. Foreigners will be considered with permanent SA residency. There is no reliable contact address for CV's. If you are desperate, PM me and I will send you my email address.

The minimum requirement at SAX is a SA Commercial license with IF rating and 1000hrs. The Co would like to hire 2500hr+ candidates, but they have hired FO's with as low as 1500hrs. The current flavour of the month is minimum 500hrs multi-engine time and turbine time plus SA ATP subjects (or the license) will help a lot.

SAX's current crew requirement is 191 pilots and they are only hiring to fight attrition. A new fleet might increase the number by approximately 40 pilots. Current time to command for eligible FO's (4000hrs + ATP) is about 2 years. Salaries are reasonable, but less than Comair and about 50% of comparable SAA scales. Working conditions are good, but on certain pools you can expect to fly 90+hrs per month over 20 days.

SAX is profitable and has recently paid off the residual payments on 13 of its 21 aircraft. The other 8 aircraft are on operating leases. Contrary to popular belief, SAX has never received capital from the treasury although it now belongs to the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE).