kenichiwa all,
yes for those that are sceptical about these threads they are all 100% true, as sarcastic as they maybe but true indeed. For those interested about coming to or thinking about AJX/AJV have you got rocks in your heads. It all sounds lovely and rosey on paper but until you are actually there you dont know what has hit you.
For those asking about the Flight and Duty times, well putting it straight your are a foriegn pilot you dont need sleep and rest and for those who do then your are week. Anywhere else in the world yes these F&D's are illegal but here where the people are yellow best pilot in world they are too unless of course you are foriegner. They make there own rules it seems like and you are ordered to comply.
Why has an office gone through 10 girls doing a simple job in 5 yrs, simple because they get treated like s
t, and they are japanese, so you can imagine what its like if you are a not japanese.
No one has gone or volunteered for this new frieght company as attractive as they have made it (yeah right) simply because it is f
d up and full of lies. For 5yrs nearlly now the AJX guys have been lied to directly to there face been treated like a dogs been given duties two crew cant nearly do let alone just one crew and now here they are expecting them to jump hoops to go to this new frieghter company so we can do 3 sector night frieghters into china followed by a day frighter followed by a night frieghter followed by a north american trip crossing god nows how many time zones for min rest then returning to do the same. And they wonder why they arent fighting over each other. The money they are offering actually works out less than what they are on at AJX. Yes really!!!!
Bring a very big suitcase because you will spend your life catching buses trains planes before and after duties positioning as there will be 3 main airports to fly out of but all based at the only one where slots are minimal, smart little tuckers arent they.
And for the record Yes all the rosters ANA and AJX and soon to come AJV are all done by hand. like you said before Luke for a computerised country like Japan where you get a mobil phone before you are even born its pretty truckin hard to believe. SMART did I say sorry, we must have all forgotten it took them two bombs to relise they had lost WW2. do I need to say anymore.
There will be day frieghters to but only the japanese pilots will get them as they are preciouse little pieces of work.
Anyway enough talking, for those that are interested good lukc to you but remember you will be on a C or D scale by the time you get here and hope you dont like life as it will age you an extra 10 years quicker, but remember Ana will become the biggest airline in the asia region by 2009 ( how, nobody knows) but hey you are only nearly good so use more caution.
Saya nara
(spelling not so good)
