Originally Posted by
SimoFly
Before moving to the airbus as an FO initially for an airline in Europe on A320 and then on the A380 in the ME I used to be a CPT on the citation mustang and I had long stays in AMS on my work rotations, I got to know few pilots working for the local airlines quite well, if I may I would like to tell you something, I lived in many countries in Europe, in the US as well as in the ME now there are no people I found to be more racist and arrogant than the Dutch people, the dutch aviation market is very protectionist and even though they might drop the language requirement I dont think for foreigners it would be a good working environment.
If someone is willing to move away from home and is willing to work and respect the different nationalities, Emirates is a good airline to work for despite the few Brits and Aussies that try to ruin the place.
The thread is named "...in
Europe". The problem of working in the ME is no protection at all. Ask your ex-colleagues who were never called back after covid. It is good for money, that's all. Constantly tired. Crossing the timezones. Sleeping mostly in the aircraft... unfortunately, unless you work for unionized airline in Europe, it is not a great job anymore. At least in Europe, where certain CAAs are accepting ICAO pilots from third countries flying EU registered aircraft thus screwing conditions for all of us.
Also I have never had any issues with Dutch despite there are many of them in QR. You are talking about respecting the others and at the same time you are blaming certain nationalities that they are trying to ruin Emirates. Pathetic.
From my point of view I can tell that good employers in Europe are Lufthansa, Air France, KLM, Cargolux, Aerologic, NetJets Europe, Flexjet Europe. They all have one in common - Unions and they do respect seniority.
(note: I have zero knowledge about BA and Virgin)