Originally Posted by
nimrodjoe
Of course nobody with a half decent job in USA or EU is coming to EK.
The only ones from the UK I see are Ryanair guys. EU guys usually come as a second/third choice having not got in a proper gig back home.
Africa, Aus and Asia is the future for this airline !
Nobody?
Maybe not recently but EK definitely had people from BA and Virgin join, say 5 years ago for sure. Got a few from Jet2 joining. Virgin hire and fire regularly. You only have to look through LinkedIn to see peoples profiles.
Ryanair well EK could fill the whole 777 fleet I’m sure. Close to a 1000 Ryanair pilots working notice. Qatar and EK the top places for FOs. Captains bit tough to go from LHS okish position to RHS. Ryanair might not have got rid of pilots during the pandemic but they didn’t pay salaries either and paying less than pre pandemic now so people just fed up.
UK wise most only see BA as a step up.