RE: I was hoping to get information exclusively dealing with life on the wide body fleet at Turkish.
Why? Are you interested to join? How many warnings does a man need?
RE How many days off :
By contract 3 weeks ON, 1 week OFF. Real life: 6 weeks ON 1 week OFF
REand, if the travel days are included, or are part of the operational days.
In earlier days, 1 day was respected to be for traveling
RE: Do you know which hotel is planned for crew members when the move to the new airport occurs.
Welcome to the lottery. No info and no plan at all.
Guess:a company who is not able to help you within 8 years of experience, while the time you need help is between 5 pm to 9 am, and the planned hotel is unable or unwilling to accept you. What would this company help? Answewr: Nothing!
Guess more: If now, a complete airport structure with 50.000 labors is moving into an area, where only 5.000 habitants live, where hotels could provide 500 beds at max and the village can provide 200 homes at max, just guess how prices will rise and how this fantastic company will handle the new problems?
Pilots will continue to travel on their own by taxi needing 1h of drive.
RE: How long does the training take, and do they allow you to go home if there are gaps in training
By contract you are not allowed to go home in your ON days, As said, they could put 2 periods together and nobody is able to do anything.
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RE: Some of the posters on the other Turkish thread suggest that there is hostility to foreigners - is that your experience.
Indeed! Be prepared to get many situations from anybody or nobody. You cannot tell, who is your friend. On top, do not talk against Mr E from A while your phone is on. If smartphone, while it is either on or if Offline, if your aps are online by wifi.
RE: It was mentioned that the CP had issued an email stating that pay would be made in a mix of currencies - has there been any development on that.
No published information. Just repetetive hot air from Chief pilot, telling the individual future is below the company futere. Rumors saying, no hard currency.
RE: Two months ago, the monthly pay was equal to about 8500 euros,
This is a complete lie !!! It was never, except Bonus month, this money !!
RE: while today it is more like 7000.
This is, what it was already before !!!
RE: Several years ago it was better than that. In discussions with the company, where is your reasonable expectation of pay - 10000 euros per month, less or more.
Dream on. If anybody or if there is a single person telling this, he will be slaughtered by pilots. Forget any high number. Just switch your mind on.
THY is Turkey. Turley is Mr E from A. Currency is down due to so many reasons belong to Mr E. Mr E is asking his people to distroy all US products.
Do you really believe, Mr E would approve salary payment in US?
Do you really believe, one of Turks greatest representitives of Mr E would pay in US?
Do you really believe, Mr E would approve a single payment in any other currency than his belioved Turk Lira?
RE: The political situation is a variable, as is the currency, so I have read people's opinions on how those will affect any outcome on pay and job security.
You must know, that you are trash. They use you, they kick you in the trash bag when a single Turk is able to replace you.
The magic question you did not ask: How to survive?
RE: How to survive?
Never board an aircraft of THY. THY pilots believe, it is not a matter of if there will be a crash soon. The question is, will it happen this month ...