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Tranquility Base
It’s all done under the guise of ‘diversity’ and the excuse that they have to recruit younger so they’re not accused of age discrimination. This is the Post Covid World where airlines are maximising rosters and profits by overlooking seniority and experience.
It’s shameful and will cost airlines more ultimately as there’s no loyalty as pilots will come and go.
another nail into the coffin of european pilot market is bringing-in the 3rd country pilots - mainly the South American and Ukrainian guys. Rumours from authorities are that there is a big pressure coming from the local goverments to validate or convert ICAO to EASA licences even without meeting the criterias contained in Part-FCL. Everything hidden under the exemptions reasoning the "pilot shortage" (famous cat beast airline)
And let's break down, what opportunities actually we have in Europe. Ruling out all the legacies and mainlines which are recruiting only the locals, we have:
- bizav segment, where many of the captains I met in the simulator or in line ops would be below-average copilots in the airlines, or best pilot aces in the universe (means machos with military background who would not make it into the airlines). There are still some good places to be (e.g. NetJets, Vista - here a big question mark seeing the current development of the Air Hamburg, or if you are lucky, you have a good owner wiling to spend a bit more for a reasonable monthly salary of his crew)
- LoCos - draining you down to the last drop of your energy (yellow one) or even worse - placing you into some sh... hole somewehere in the post socialistic countries (in other words, complete Earthquake for your family and kids)
- ACMI - some strictly nationalistic (e.g. German one) and those, who are not are usually eastern-european companies driven by ASG or private individuals who are bringing-in the friends of their friends... Moreover usually claiming to own every second of your life in summer and starving in winter..