Apologies to the Doc if he didn't get a reply -- someone in the US posted that we had a need for any type of pilot about 5 months ago - we have had thousands of letters and emails - mostly from young people with 200 hours and a twin rating - very sad and very irresponsible to whoever did it as one of the sites was a site where you had to pay to get a list of jobs available!!!!. We were just overloaded with applications - so sorry to any of you who applied and didn't get a reply. Anyone out there with a JAR licence and a 747 rating can apply send emails to
[email protected]
Ref the post about maintenance, we are a JAR-OPS operator and have a JAR-145 approval too.
All of our Flight Engineers are qualified ground engineers (avionics or A+C). We have full engineering support inhouse. We have purchased 3 ex-BA 747's for spares (less engines). They are in Roswell, New Mexico and are just about finished being dismantled and then all of the spares will be brought back. That will help us. We have 3 spare engines. I don't know who in Cargolux said what they did, but both our aircraft are having checks at Cargolux now (G-INTL right now and G-GAFX straight after).
G-GAFX is leased from Boeing and we have started talks to buy it. G-INTL we paid cash for so we own it and didn't borrow any money to buy it and the third one that will be registered G-CSTA is from POLAR (same engines as the others)is being purchased with a loan over a few years.
3 x a week flights start to Hong Kong this Saturday 21 July and as soon as we get the ex-Polar aircraft we will fly 4 x a week to Chicago. These are scheduled routes. Lots of other routes are planed but we don't want to over-expand, especially in a very tricky cargo market. G-GAFX will still fly for Cargolux.
All of the people here are great - some of the Ex BA guys are on big pensions so don't have to put themselves out to help us but they do...... can't ask for more.
Anyway, hope that clears up a few rumours. We are all trying to have a good safe reliable operation that our customers like and want to keep using.