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Old 10th July 2023 | 23:58
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1201alarm
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Have a good look what you sign with EFA. The EFA training seems very expensive from what I hear, therefore apparently not a lot of uptake by young woman and men.

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/mang...en-und-piloten

Do you owe the training cost to EFA only when Swiss mainline hires you, or do you owe the money to EFA whichever of the many Lufthansa Group Airlines offers you a job? There is also now Austrian, Brussels, Edelweiss, Cityline, Discover, Eurowings, Eurowings Malta, a new founded airline City Air - all with different and usually much worse conditions, this being one of the reasons they exist to begin with. All these Airlines have separate career systems and seniority lists. I assume you understand what that means.

Regarding your training cost: What happens if you can only join one of these many subsidiaries? What happens if you chose to not join a Lufthansa Group airline but some other competing airline? What happens if you join a non-Lufthansa-group airline because Lufthansa does not offer you a job? How long do you owe the money to EFA when they are not offering you a job?

Make sure you really get into an agreement that gives you what you want.

Also: do you do ATPL or MPL training? MPL restricts massively your options in case the airline that trained you does not want to hire you.

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