Originally Posted by
Whitemonk Returns
Can only speak for J2 but the ACMI usage is less to do with lack of crew and more to do with adding that extra summer capacity at little to no long term risk to the business. It's not like there are a bunch of empty airplanes sitting around with no crew to fly them.
As for the opening up of turboprop jobs in the winter, hold your breath because there are about to be plenty at a certain Scottish carrier considering Jet are currently doing recruitment days 3 days a week until the end of the summer and the place was packed with Scots last week. Out of the nearly 10,000 applications they got less than 20% had UK licences, and with 150 jobs to offer this year that means 1 in 10 who applied will get in
Re ACMI - fair enough and I do understand from a business perspective. However the point remains re our soft government who are allowing UK licensed pilots to be disadvantaged by allowing EU ACMI operators access to the UK market.
Re J2 recruitment - UK licensed 73 Cpt, 6000+ hrs. Not heard a thing.