Hainan Airlines Recruitment and Working Conditions
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Hainan Airlines Recruitment and Working Conditions
Firstly let me offer a warning to anyone currently following Hainan Airlines Recruitment through agencies or the company.
The company and agencies are currently recruiting for B787 captains. The fact is that no foreigner will see a B787 at Hainan Airlines. The reasons are like this
B787 rated guys
Experienced B787 rated guys are the only people currently with any chance of being out onto the B787 at Hainan. If you do not have a B787 rating with at least 500 hours experience as P1 you will not see a B787 position.
Why is the B787 offered?
The company has been trying to attract B737 pilots for a long time but not enough present themselves because of the now too well known over extended and most often volatile process. After some years they found that by promising the B737 to B787 contract many B737 pilots would come.
This move increased the flow of pilots into the airline but on arrival all pilots on this contract will be informed that they will need to first fly the B737 for at least one year before moving onto the B787.
The B737 qualification takes anything from 6 months to 1 year after reporting to the fleet and this is a long time after your first interview or check in a simulator.
In the past 2 years about 80 pilots have been given a B787 contract but less than 4 westeners have seen this happen. The others will not see this happen.
In the last months pilots have been told (the older pilots) that the policy for B787 for B737 pilots or pilots not rated on 777 or 787 with experience of 500 hours has been cancelled but the agencies and Hainan Overseas continue to promise and advertise B787 NTR from B737 positions.
This is unacceptable in a professional world but it is also the normal working way of the company where a contract is not really worth what is written in it.
Some have decided to leave the company because of such bad management of people and the continuous flow of false information even before starting flight training.
This post is simply to say be careful about being promised a B787 position if you are not a B787 pic with 500 hours on type or B777 pic with 500 hours on type as you can find yourself sitting in a bad situation.
The only westeners who were put on type without previous B787/777 experience amount to around 10 and of those still today not all are qualified or checkedout. they seem to be the last people to enjoy that scheme because of a deletion of the policy.
I would challenge you to find people who have reported on this contract and been given the B787.
What you get given is the typical promises which do not get committed to paper and which always change at any moment in time.
The company and agencies are currently recruiting for B787 captains. The fact is that no foreigner will see a B787 at Hainan Airlines. The reasons are like this
B787 rated guys
Experienced B787 rated guys are the only people currently with any chance of being out onto the B787 at Hainan. If you do not have a B787 rating with at least 500 hours experience as P1 you will not see a B787 position.
Why is the B787 offered?
The company has been trying to attract B737 pilots for a long time but not enough present themselves because of the now too well known over extended and most often volatile process. After some years they found that by promising the B737 to B787 contract many B737 pilots would come.
This move increased the flow of pilots into the airline but on arrival all pilots on this contract will be informed that they will need to first fly the B737 for at least one year before moving onto the B787.
The B737 qualification takes anything from 6 months to 1 year after reporting to the fleet and this is a long time after your first interview or check in a simulator.
In the past 2 years about 80 pilots have been given a B787 contract but less than 4 westeners have seen this happen. The others will not see this happen.
In the last months pilots have been told (the older pilots) that the policy for B787 for B737 pilots or pilots not rated on 777 or 787 with experience of 500 hours has been cancelled but the agencies and Hainan Overseas continue to promise and advertise B787 NTR from B737 positions.
This is unacceptable in a professional world but it is also the normal working way of the company where a contract is not really worth what is written in it.
Some have decided to leave the company because of such bad management of people and the continuous flow of false information even before starting flight training.
This post is simply to say be careful about being promised a B787 position if you are not a B787 pic with 500 hours on type or B777 pic with 500 hours on type as you can find yourself sitting in a bad situation.
The only westeners who were put on type without previous B787/777 experience amount to around 10 and of those still today not all are qualified or checkedout. they seem to be the last people to enjoy that scheme because of a deletion of the policy.
I would challenge you to find people who have reported on this contract and been given the B787.
What you get given is the typical promises which do not get committed to paper and which always change at any moment in time.
