Originally Posted by
flylevel390
Interesting thread. Fits quite nicely to my current dilemma. Maybe one can give me a career advice.
Sure, but do you honestly think that one of us has the knowledge what YOU really like best ? How old you are ? What the circumstances of either operator really are? How much fun you need to have in the workplace to be happy outside of it ? Thats fairly individual... and there is much more.
One thing that has sometimes great bearing on you as an employee, is how you are covered in case of illness - you know, not the flu, but something that might put you out of action and your medical so long that you`d have to renew you rating as an example. Thats where you USUALLY are better covered in a bigger operation or as the employee of a company with a workers council. Is loss of license included or paid for in case you have your own ? OTOH I have a friend who started his airline flying after been lucky enough to have flown a KingAir - then, when is seniority number as a co was #2, the place (Aero-Lloyd in EDDF) closed shop, he went to LTU, was scheduled for a command a few years on, then....LTU went bust. Moved to Air Berlin, the same play unfolded, he nowadays flies for a Spanish outfit, which seems to be...welll.....not the very best place to work. But he made his fourth stripe there finally, after about 25 yrs in Aviation. That could happen to you - and if you are in a big company that goes bust, suddenly you are swept out of the place with HUNDREDS of your fellow airman....Eurowings could be put out of action when Carsten Spohr has a hickup. Granted, for the time being there seem to be job opportunities, but for how long is that going to last ? Economic downturn anyone ?
To predict or just give good career advice in Aviation in Europe sounds like a oxymoron to me, especially with all that idiotic climate stuff etc going on. For us GA types I think the future is less bright - Eindhoven are shutting down GA completely in 2025 IIRC and Dublin are thinking of the same, Amsterdam has a plan too. Portugal has put taxes on GA in place and getting slots in certain place there (and a lot of other place) is getting increasingly harder by the day.
The lobby power airlines have is CERTAINLY way bigger than what business/executive aviation can bring to bear - and that is going to hurt us hard, I´m sure. In part that is a problem within the 'community' NJE/FleaxJet/Vista play a different game than say corporate FDs, cause they see each other as competitors and are way too stupid (all sides) to understand what the divide and conquer strategy really is. In part its the populistic nature of our politics, where it is so easy (and frankly the lifeline of many politicians) to foster greed and envy towards the people sitting in our back. They are evil and thus their airplanes are as well, to say it in simple terms....