Air Baltic information

[menekse]

Originally Posted by motardos

I checked that the basic salary for FO is 2815 euros
Can someone who lives in Riga say how much are the basic expenses like rent, gas, bills and grocery?
Thank you in advance

That's the situation in Europe, pilots wonder how expensive the supermarket is.
What to expect when anyone can take a pilot license payed by mom and is happy to fly for peanuts

[corporal klinger]

If he was happy to fly for peanuts, why would he ask about living costs?

[patituri]

Originally Posted by menekse

Add to this that they hire clowns like @WaylanderShade , @OKSUP , @2991, @twentyfivehundred220 (it's the same person) who don't meet the entry requirements. He/she confirmed it in my thread.
As result they have four runway excursions, one AOG after hard landing in Schiphol and the most serious when almost crashed in Brussels

Incident: Baltic BCS3 at Brussels on Apr 19th 2023, started final descent too early

An Air Baltic Bombardier C-Series CS-300 on behalf of Swiss International Airlines, registration YL-ABM performing flight LX-780 from Zurich (Switzerland) to Brussels (Belgium), was cleared for a VOR Approach to runway 07L when the crew initiated the final descent before the final approach fix. Descending through about 800 feet MSL about 6.5nm before the runway threshold the crew noticed the error and initiated a missed approach, climbed back to 4000 feet MSL, positioned for another approach to runway 07L and landed without further incident about 12 minutes later.

Belgium's Air Accident Investigation Unit have opened an investigation into the occurrence adding that the occurrence happened in VMC.

I don't think that Swiss will extend the ACMI deal

[Lepo]

Originally Posted by patituri

I don't think that Swiss will extend the ACMI deal

I think you are wrong.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) in Northern winter 2023/24 season continues to schedule leased airBaltic Airbus A220-300 service on various routes to/from Zurich. From 29OCT23 to 30MAR24, following routes to see airBaltic A220 operating on selected flights.

Zurich – Alicante
Zurich – Barcelona
Zurich – Belgrade
Zurich – Berlin
Zurich – Bologna
Zurich – Bordeaux
Zurich – Brussels
Zurich – Budapest
Zurich – Copenhagen
Zurich – Dresden
Zurich – Dusseldorf
Zurich – Frankfurt
Zurich – Gothenburg
Zurich – Hamburg
Zurich – Hannover
Zurich – Krakow
Zurich – Ljubljana
Zurich – London Heathrow
Zurich – Luxembourg
Zurich – Madrid
Zurich – Malaga
Zurich – Malta
Zurich – Manchester
Zurich – Munich
Zurich – Naples
Zurich – Nice
Zurich – Palma de Mallorca
Zurich – Paris CDG
Zurich – Porto
Zurich – Rome Fiumicino
Zurich – Sofia
Zurich – Stuttgart
Zurich – Tallinn
Zurich – Thessaloniki
Zurich – Tirana
Zurich – Valencia
Zurich – Venice Marco Polo
Zurich – Warsaw

[lollopisa96]

Pilot academy online assessment

Hi guys,

Any feedback about the online assessment?

is it tripod or not?
if not are there two different physics and math exam?

are the calculation difficult and quite long since it's not allowed to use the calculator?

What's the content of the syllabus for math and physics?


Thanks in advance for your support!

Ciao guys

[Elia1996]

AB Pilot Academy

Originally Posted by lollopisa96

Hi guys,

Any feedback about the online assessment?

is it tripod or not?
if not are there two different physics and math exam?

are the calculation difficult and quite long since it's not allowed to use the calculator?

What's the content of the syllabus for math and physics?


Thanks in advance for your support!

Ciao guys

Ciao,I took the assessment in July if you are interested in getting info write me on FB ( Elia Lanciato)

[batushka]

Originally Posted by lollopisa96

Hi guys,

Any feedback about the online assessment?

is it tripod or not?
if not are there two different physics and math exam?

are the calculation difficult and quite long since it's not allowed to use the calculator?

What's the content of the syllabus for math and physics?


Thanks in advance for your support!

Ciao guys

If you check the threads for this company you will see that it doesn't matter what you know but who you know. It is confirmed that they hire pilots who don't meet the entry requirements. They even fire pilots to hire others. My advise is to give the exams without any stress. It is just depending on how well connected are the people in your group of candidates

[twentyfivehundred220]

Originally Posted by motardos

Is the basic salary for Captain 4600 or 6800 euros?
As for the captain upgrade, is it true that first officers with five years in the company are not promoted to captains yet?

If you count back 5 years to Covid time, it could be true, but as far as I know, most SFO's with requirements are updated, of course, if they pass the upgrade course, skill tests etc.

[patituri]

Originally Posted by WhatShortage

McDonald's is a full legal contract and gets more or less the same. I haven't seen any illegalities on Avion Heston etc contracts, you pay your taxes wherever you want. It seems that you got catch and now you don't want to recognise the sh*thole you got in. A220 type rating bonded getting 2k at Latvia and.. A PENSION, insane package also, I want the coke without ice please and a big mac.

At least on Avion or Heston is commuting roster and you don't need to pay rent or bills. With airbaltic you spend most of the salary on the basics. Pilots in uniform under a jacket take the bus from the airport. No chance to put money aside. No way to pay the bond if you find something better.
Everything is expensive here, Latvians are boycotting R*mi supermarket cause off the prices

[uberfly]

Originally Posted by patituri

At least on Avion or Heston is commuting roster and you don't need to pay rent or bills. With airbaltic you spend most of the salary on the basics. Pilots in uniform under a jacket take the bus from the airport. No chance to put money aside. No way to pay the bond if you find something better.
Everything is expensive here, Latvians are boycotting R*mi supermarket cause off the prices

Yes and Avion, Heston pilots stay in the tent during their free days which is usually 8 to 10 days per 20-21 days (not to mention unpaid leaves during winter) or they don’t have families that are in need of accommodation in their home country. Unless your are young single guy who is staying at parents or friend for free what you say is not valid for those pilots.

[patituri]

Originally Posted by uberfly

Yes and Avion, Heston pilots stay in the tent during their free days which is usually 8 to 10 days per 20-21 days (not to mention unpaid leaves during winter) or they don’t have families that are in need of accommodation in their home country. Unless your are young single guy who is staying at parents or friend for free what you say is not valid for those pilots.

For a family house in Riga you need way more than 1000 per month for rent. If you give the same money for a loan you can buy an apartment at home country. In case of a family you will need to pay for private english speaking school which is quite expensive. Wife can have a job in home country, I don't think it is easy to find a job here without speaking Latvian. With Avion or Heston due commuting roster you have choices how to spend your salary. With non commuting roster the only choices is how to spend the couple hundred euros left after paying for the basics

[Intrance]

Originally Posted by patituri

Pilots in uniform under a jacket take the bus from the airport.

May I ask what offends you about this?

[zen krempie]

Originally Posted by 45989

Trustworthy?
I am not an insider but can't be a coincidence that in this forum there are negative feedbacks for every single airline in the Baltics, Heston, Getjet, Airbaltic, Smartlynx, Avion Express

the Baltic based Mafias

[TheEdge]

Originally Posted by zen krempie

the Baltic based Mafias

Baltic ACMI...the cancer of aviation

[batushka]

Originally Posted by twentyfivehundred220

I understand you will follow me anywhere. If you ever tried to get a job at airbaltic - too bad the unsuccessful assesment left such a huge impact to your ego. But hey - you wouldn't like flying here anyway, so maybe the company was right in not hiring for any position whatsoever.

I don't know if the people you attack with your different accounts had an assessment. I can speak for my case. When I was assessed I had more than 2000 hours on an proper CS 25 airliner with FMS and EFIS . That time market was still bad so I booked a sim session for a DA42 sim in Germany before the assessment. It didn't help at all. The assessment was full of tricks. Non standard ones. For the record I had a successful assessment few years ago and another one few months ago.
Describe please your assessment to see if we had the same one. Don't spare the details, it will make the difference. Because I believe that you, and people like you, had a special treatment. That special treatment was the reason to invite you at the first place despite you didn't meet the entry requirements. With your other accounts you admit that Let410, Beechcraft 1900, Js31, piston trainers, pilots were hired. These aircrafts are not CS25, FMS as per the requirements. Another user, wrote that he was fired just before the TR to be replaced with someone of your kind.
A failed assessments is not a big deal. I feel lucky that I was failed and got a better job later. What is annoying is to invite people that will be failed in favor of others who managed to be invited without meeting the requirements and would be hired no matter what. More annoying is to have here a person of that breed making lectures. With multiple accounts, something which reflects the fraudy ways you use

[Jayg742]

That is correct for basic but there is 3 levels which goes upto around 3300 or 3400 after that, nothing

[motardos]

Is there a chance to get Tampere base in Finland without asking it? Is the salary the same for Tampere base?

[Jayg742]

Originally Posted by motardos

Is there a chance to get Tampere base in Finland without asking it? Is the salary the same for Tampere base?

There is no tampere base unfortunately, only in name. No crews are based in tampere I assume for exactly that reason to keep the pay and conditions the same. All flights from tampere are operated by RIX based crew on 4 or 5 days rotations

[menekse]

Originally Posted by 45989

Trustworthy?
I am not an insider but can't be a coincidence that in this forum there are negative feedbacks for every single airline in the Baltics, Heston, Getjet, Airbaltic, Smartlynx, Avion Express

I saw an advert for Xfly, they ask 200hr TT and a type rating on CRJ
What's the catch there, do they ask to pay an overpriced TR to hire you? I think they are based in Estonia

[uberfly]

Originally Posted by menekse

I saw an advert for Xfly, they ask 200hr TT and a type rating on CRJ
What's the catch there, do they ask to pay an overpriced TR to hire you? I think they are based in Estonia

They operate CRJs on behalf of SAS.