I know AAB has been warned by his HR dept that we are in the middle of a recruitment crisis as far as dek crew is concerned....
But wether that will be enough to wake these guys up I have no idea...It seems that they still believe in the tales that we have enough crews around.
Time to wake up boys: EK, CX, SIA and most other majors are struggling to crew their planes.
A rescent report talks about an ABSOLUTE PILOT VACUUM within 5 years. They even talk about salaries on the same level as the old CX A scale. Remember, those boys retired with 4 million GBP on their bank account!!!
They talk about extreme inventiveness by companies recruiting in order to attract pilots such as flexible rosters, comuting contracts, etc etc etc...
So wake up boys.....6000QR is not going to do the trick! Qatar stays a boring place to live so if you want a pilot to choose between singapore or Hong Kong and Qatar, making the same money bit a better life style, you better start pulling all your tricks out of your sleeve...
Otherwise, QR will be forgotten within 10 years....