I am just a little bit off topic here, but during the same days I went to the Qatar Roadshow, and surprise: yes lots of GF drivers were there. Every 'cast' was represented from the young A320 FO to the A340 Training Captain with 20+ years in GF, amazing.
The best I think was to here from M. Naff on the same evening that they had a 'list' of bad pilots who are 'always' sick to be fired (Mr Naff I have an advise for you: try to understand why these guys are always 'sick' and then you might solve one of our big problem in Gulf Air : Rostering / Crew Planning (...)). Great sir! By spilling so much uncertainty on our careers and families you will end up with an airline with no pilot to fly your aircrafts. Maybe could you also go and fly them yourself !(You will see reading these 20 pages of MDDs take quite a time!)
What a bad
PR from our new management. Even if I appreciate M. Naff effort to communicate with us. But how do you want people to buy your crap? You ask us basically to understand that we are ahead of difficult times (again!) with downsizing (the only airline in the gulf to do that!) and no salary increase (We have been listening to the same crap for the last years)... When in the same day we have been offered at least 2 jobs with more than double the money in a better environment...
THIS IS A NO BRAINER !
And guess what when the meeting was finished the other night I went straight to the GF sim for assessment with Qatar, and I couldnt believe it! Strange times ! And I had no intention to leave GF but with all this crap now it is a whole different story.
You want to increase the 1970 old school allowance and the housing allowance: this is NOT ENOUGH, you need to bring our BASIC salary up to standard, or a massive exodus will happen. We need hard money in our pockets or we will get it from somebody else (call him sheik ahmed or almaktoum).
See you, in Doha or Abu Dhabi or even Dubai. When is this Emirates Pilot Roadshow by the way ? I heard Cabin Crew had one recently in the now famous MoevenPick Hotel (who is a Swiss hotel company by the way...) but when are pilots interviews scheduled in bahrain?
BD