Hi Aussie,
Quite a good company, CDR ATR pay in the region of 40K DKK, but varies a lot with base. One base (FRO) runs fixed pay, but they also have (had?) a fixed roster. Other bases have 10½ days off per month - though they generally expect you to come in on days off if you're honest enough to answer the phone. You'll get a replacement day off, that's it
Company speciality is ad-hoc or ACMI charters, which they do really well. But last I heard, there was a "charter only" base as a sub-group of the BLL- & CPH based crew, so not a big chance of getting into that. The alternatives is day-stop + night flight cargo out if CPH or domestic flights in Norway (FRO-BGO & FRO-OSL). However, these 2 routes are PSO & are up for grabs - perhaps answer's already in
- anyway, losing these contracts would probably mean quite a blow to the cash-flow of the company. So to sum up (to my limited knowledge) - best case status quo, worst case down 2 aircraft & 18 pilots. When aircraft are made redundant in DAT, they are usually transferred to DOT, a lithuanian company that shares some of the owner & management group with DAT. All flown with lithuanian crews (or F/Os who have bought a type rating with DOT & are line training with the company). The future of this? Maybe a gradual transfer of aircraft to DOT, slowly closing down DAT but retaining the same market (ad-hoc & ACMI) & same customers. Brokers happy - they deal with the same sales & ops team, pax happy, they get c/a's speaking a minimum of scandinavian & english.
All in all - probably not that much of a job chance. If ATR rated, would try either Ireland, Italy or India - quite a lot of contracts popping up there.
Brgds,
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