Safi Airways - You gotta be kidding
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Safi Airways - You gotta be kidding
Dancing with the devil, going with the flow... it's all a game to me.
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Your mandatory armed escort will be earning more than you! Transport provided? Wheelchair more like!
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DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES JOIN THIS JOKE OF AN AIRLINE
No doubt you will read many emails telling you so from hear on in.
If the Taliban don't get you the management will.
No doubt you will read many emails telling you so from hear on in.
If the Taliban don't get you the management will.
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The Truth AS IS, in brief. !!!!!!!
Safi Airways used to have some good Pilots: That's a fact! However, Good people don't last long there!!
Over night in Kabul with US$100.000 (Ł62000) Life cover!! ISAF reports : Thats Safi IS a imminent target! Hotel blown up twice in ONE year!! One Captain injured and almost lost his life. The rest of the crew traumatised and post traumatic stress.
Operating in and out of Kabul: A stressful exercise just in its self! 3.5 degree ILS, Only one way in, 17500ft MSA, Blowing snow, strong turbulence on the approach! etc etc....
Refuse to overnight in Kabul: Fired. Refuse to take a pay cut: Fired. Refuse to move to a **** hotel: Fired.
New management M. M (with Dodgy passed) has single handedly F@@@@@@ the company: Fact!
Over night in Kabul with US$100.000 (Ł62000) Life cover!! ISAF reports : Thats Safi IS a imminent target! Hotel blown up twice in ONE year!! One Captain injured and almost lost his life. The rest of the crew traumatised and post traumatic stress.
Operating in and out of Kabul: A stressful exercise just in its self! 3.5 degree ILS, Only one way in, 17500ft MSA, Blowing snow, strong turbulence on the approach! etc etc....
Refuse to overnight in Kabul: Fired. Refuse to take a pay cut: Fired. Refuse to move to a **** hotel: Fired.
New management M. M (with Dodgy passed) has single handedly F@@@@@@ the company: Fact!
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At the end of the day, we are all free agents, nobody HAS to apply, nobody HAS to go, what is obscene / deplorable/ requires someone is hung out to dry for this is how much money they dare to offer to prostitute yourself in a 
war zone . . . ˘6000 as a Skipper 
Is this a p1sstake, or am I really missing something here ? C
nts !
Edited to say M M, as in exRYR / ex DO of Arik /two prossies who decided to knife each other as they both thought he "loved them" / leave Arik in a "hurry" / another fellow "disciplined" Scot. . . Jeezuz ! I am in the wrong job, really I am, much easier to **** up everything in life & move on for a management wallah, than a simple aircraft driver.
war zone . . . ˘6000 as a Skipper Is this a p1sstake, or am I really missing something here ? C
nts !Edited to say M M, as in exRYR / ex DO of Arik /two prossies who decided to knife each other as they both thought he "loved them" / leave Arik in a "hurry" / another fellow "disciplined" Scot. . . Jeezuz ! I am in the wrong job, really I am, much easier to **** up everything in life & move on for a management wallah, than a simple aircraft driver.
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Used to be US$ 6000 Basic. Day Allowance: US$300 day and US$400 Kabul. Captains often took home: US$ 14000 to US$ 16000 a month FACT. That is until M. Mctighe started his cost cutting exercise!! (i.e. save money for company = add to bonus)
NOW there is NO mention of the day allowance!!!
NOW there is NO mention of the day allowance!!!
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14-16 was no more than "fair" for what they ask.
Google Mikes name, perhaps add Arik to the search, and you will see why he is such a "driven man". . . . . not TOO many options ? but it seems SO O O much easier to hide a dodgy past if you are a manager
anyway, sure he enjoys a beer, buy him a couple, & work on your contract, if you are unfortunate enough to be there !
Google Mikes name, perhaps add Arik to the search, and you will see why he is such a "driven man". . . . . not TOO many options ? but it seems SO O O much easier to hide a dodgy past if you are a manager
anyway, sure he enjoys a beer, buy him a couple, & work on your contract, if you are unfortunate enough to be there !
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Stay away from this Joke of a company.
Also when people leave SAFI you will never recieve your last paycheck.
2 pilots now suing the company. Also the fat self appointed chief pilot lying about his aviation background, gettin a typerating and with no experience appointing himself training captain. Serious incident / accident will happen here.
Worst airline ever. Also your insurance cover is only for 60 000 USD but only if you die of natural causes. All good pilots have left, only crj drivers there now.
Any other job in the world would be better than this company, trust me.....
2 pilots now suing the company. Also the fat self appointed chief pilot lying about his aviation background, gettin a typerating and with no experience appointing himself training captain. Serious incident / accident will happen here.
Worst airline ever. Also your insurance cover is only for 60 000 USD but only if you die of natural causes. All good pilots have left, only crj drivers there now.
Any other job in the world would be better than this company, trust me.....
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How the stabbing of a young woman led Arik air
The canadian Chief pilot/Head of training (Randall Trent Howe) arrived at safi without a licence to fly any of its aircraft or any training qualifications on its aircraft.
Whilst working at Arik and against their request he obtained a 330 rating, but after 5 hours of flying he was caught flying without a medical (he has dyslexia) and was and still is suspended by the Nigeria CAA. His 330 hours were reduced to zero....FACT
Whilst there he went to Airbus to do an instructors course but he failed the course. Whilst his training partner was getting debriefed, he STOLE the course completion certificate...FACT. Airbus unfortunately prepare these prior to the start of the course and place in the file.
He has used this to convince everyone he has an airbus training qualification...illlegally.
He then did a CCQ course in USA, skill test in canada 330-320 but of course he did not have the required basic minimum amount of hours to do the course or was not current on the 330....guess what? He lied! ..FACT
So now he has an illegal 320 type rating and after 6 sectors flying the airbus he installed himself as a training capt.
He flew one person who had never flown a jet (1400 152hours) who had obtained a canadian 320 licence (no take offs in the actual aircraft), into kabul without a safety pilot as their first flight. Flying over iran, through afghanistan where no radar, kabul, dodgy ILS & VOR and regular 30 knot crosswind....FACT
Now he also only flies in to kabul in the early morning hours before the crosswind starts as he cant manage it.
There are hundreds of examples of his incompetence and stupidity as well as MMcTs. He is MMcTs lapdog, whilst MMcT and the spanish controller fleece safi for every penny they can get.
Many ex-taliban exist within its management and will try and convince you that staying in a hotel that has been blown up twice with crew in, and still is a target of the taliban is safe!
The taliban are the least of your worries!
The canadian Chief pilot/Head of training (Randall Trent Howe) arrived at safi without a licence to fly any of its aircraft or any training qualifications on its aircraft.
Whilst working at Arik and against their request he obtained a 330 rating, but after 5 hours of flying he was caught flying without a medical (he has dyslexia) and was and still is suspended by the Nigeria CAA. His 330 hours were reduced to zero....FACT
Whilst there he went to Airbus to do an instructors course but he failed the course. Whilst his training partner was getting debriefed, he STOLE the course completion certificate...FACT. Airbus unfortunately prepare these prior to the start of the course and place in the file.
He has used this to convince everyone he has an airbus training qualification...illlegally.
He then did a CCQ course in USA, skill test in canada 330-320 but of course he did not have the required basic minimum amount of hours to do the course or was not current on the 330....guess what? He lied! ..FACT
So now he has an illegal 320 type rating and after 6 sectors flying the airbus he installed himself as a training capt.
He flew one person who had never flown a jet (1400 152hours) who had obtained a canadian 320 licence (no take offs in the actual aircraft), into kabul without a safety pilot as their first flight. Flying over iran, through afghanistan where no radar, kabul, dodgy ILS & VOR and regular 30 knot crosswind....FACT
Now he also only flies in to kabul in the early morning hours before the crosswind starts as he cant manage it.
There are hundreds of examples of his incompetence and stupidity as well as MMcTs. He is MMcTs lapdog, whilst MMcT and the spanish controller fleece safi for every penny they can get.
Many ex-taliban exist within its management and will try and convince you that staying in a hotel that has been blown up twice with crew in, and still is a target of the taliban is safe!
The taliban are the least of your worries!
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Dr Cpt Zebra
With all the exploits of our dear Dr Cpt, I wonder if transport canada or the faa know of him. Surely all his licences should have been suspended by now. He is going to kill someone if he isnt stopped.
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Also when people leave SAFI you will never recieve your last paycheck.
Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation - contacts link:
MoTCA Contacts
UAE General Civil Avitation Authority - contacts link:
https://www.gcaa.gov.ae/en/pages/contactus.aspx
ICAO - contacts link:
Pages - ContactICAO
*Be sure to enlighten each, on the highly qualified and respected management in place at Safi Airways.
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No it would not be a “waste of time” – and don’t call me Surely!
You cannot say that “nobody in any of these authorities gives a s**t” unless you are owed money by Safi and have written to each of the authorities personally without receiving any reply (?)
To the best of my knowledge, Safi Airways and all Afghanistan registered aircraft are still banned from flying to Europe. If any Afghan operator wishes to reinstate Europe flights, they must pass an ICAO audit. Part of that audit relates to financial responsibility and a review of all persons in the airline with Post Holder status.
From the posts on this thread, it is highly likely the dynamic duo of Howe and Mctighe have already caught the attention of one or more of the authorities.
If you are legitimately owed money by ANY airline and they refuse to pay, write reports of the facts to every applicable aviation legislative authority in which the airline operates. Name names and state all the facts that will cause those authorities to examine that airline or at least take note. Write to handling agents, travel agents, food service, fuel and flight plan providers to warn them of possible non-payment of services by the airline concerned. Make sure you keep the airline fully informed of your actions and the fact that they will continue until such time as your matter is settled.
You have to be like a pit bull – bite and don’t
let go until you have been paid! Alternatively, spend your time on this website writing how nobody gives a s**t.