Having followed the BMI stories,I know a few Ex Brit/European Airline First Officers who fled to the Emirates and now have Commands on Superb Aircraft with gorgeous Girls and Engineering that does not suffer from JAR 166 Car mechanics ,so you get proper line maintenance.If you want the life style that is fantastic,then go for it!!The old days of Gulf in Bahrain,or Cathay in HK(With millionaire status in 10 years)have gone though.However,you must find out about the Interview Board Q&A.Their Technical interrogation is tricky,and you need a good brain to fathom out how to "Rescue some captured colleagues from nasties,with some injured in your team-Who do you leave and who stays,what route do you take from those shown,and where are the local resources you require to achieve your aims?"They put a lot of emphasis on Command decision making.This was a few years back,but they must still require such thought processes.Does anyone else have more up to date information.?Good luck in your endeavours!!In the UK,Easy must be a better bet than BMI.In a past life,whilst transiting in the Crew Bus at Manchester,a bunch of Oz 737 Pilots with BMI took great glee at telling me just what our New Pay deal was and knew more about our Pension Scheme than our guys did;I did not think we had anything to do with BMI,but they knew everything on the grape vine.We had also agreed NOT to take on Any Oz Strikers,which these guys were.
