Emirates dec...whites only?
Just spoke to a couple of guys who had the " white honour " of being called up for the EK dec interview. Both were told that they were not Ek material and were told to leave after 3 days! This despite one of them was a Senior Flight Instructor on the A340-300 (SQ-local chinese) with credible qualifications, not to mention being type rated. No reason was given.
The other guy was in the A330 with MH for the last 7 years and was an instructor pilot as well. I personally know both of them and they have a clean and credible past records.
During their interview, out of the 8 guys called during their session, only three of our " Northern Hemisphere" friends were asked to stay for the remaining 2 days. The other 5, 4 south asians and an african were told they were not successful. And none of those selected were type rated on any EK a/c! One has about 14000 hrs, mostly being from single engined piston, twin turbo prop and exec-jet command. The other guy had been out of the job for 36 months and has 737 command. Finally, our Canadian friend, jobless for the last 1 year has been around the world in a bizz jet!
What a shame if it is true!! Looks like the brits are safe guarding their positions by only taking their colour rated, but not type rated exellent pilots from Asia or Africa.
Anyone who share the same plight or care to comment???