Originally Posted by
Lucifer786
I stand to completely concur. The original contract letter that was mutually signed by most pilots and then countersigned by their HR Director and ‘red stamped’ by Bamboo before their ‘official on boarding’ dates equated to about 10,500 USD PM for Boeing Captains before tax for 50 hours of flying.This by itself is about 50-60% market rate.
The one being asked to sign now, once these pilots are in the country and cannot leave due border restrictions and lockdowns, is about 70% of the contract already signed …!!
BAV logic is that we paid for your hotel quarantine, your sim check and your tickets to Hanoi. So now you are here, you need to pay us back !
And this contract incidentally, will be valid for 3 years of slavery in VN.
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Stay away is all I can say. Goal posts are shifted every week to suit the company’s interests. And you are slowly but surely tied down to submit with no chance of leaving physically or contractually.
Every heard of Hôtel California … 🙄
no chance of leaving physically or contractually.??????????????
seriously fake news going on here. I can fly back to the UK anytime I like. And its cheap too. Many guys I know have taken 3 or 4 months unpaid to go home for a while. Its easy as. Qatar fly nearly everywhere.
The only pilots who might be restricted in leaving are Aus and NZ due to their own country restrictions. Not Vietnam.
To be fair to Bamboo, Vietnam in Apr21 and Jul 21 and now Sep21 is a totally different environment for aviation. If you signed a contract that stated you would not get paid until completion of line training and went to a country without a high vaccination rate in the middle of a global pandemic then you must have appreciated there is some risk involved. Bamboo do not even have a Sim in Vietnam. There are no flights at present, no training facilities are open. There is no training going on at all and a lot of pilots are not working.
I am hopeful for the future, now Jan 22 we have been told. In the meantime we are all sitting at home. The basic is low for everyone.
Take it or leave it. Go home or stay. Your choice. Its the same for everyone, local or expat. Why would new joiners be paid anything?