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Old 16th Apr 2004, 08:58
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Flopster
 
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SAS

Scandinavian Airlines pays their fully certified Dispatchers (or OPS Officers as they are known in the UK) around DKK 30K/Mo which equals around UKP 3K/mo as a starting salary. With 10 years of service you would normally have made Senior Dispatcher and will pull around DKK 45K/mo. Their pension scheme is very nice too; expect to pull a monthly DKK 30K after you retire and until you die.

The problem is getting in. Unless you're already an employee of SAS - forget it. If you're an employee of SAS, then you can apply to attend the 6 month Danish dispatchers course. Upon successfull completion, they'll stick you in the OPS department for 3 months which will see you receiving your Dispatchers Licence. However, you'll then be put in a holding "bank" and sent back to your old job, waiting for an opening in OPS. I attended the Dispatchers course in 1995 along with 12 SAS employees. Last I've heard, which is around 3 years ago, only 3 of those 12 have been offered a job with OPS.
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