Does anyone know what criteria the Middle East VIP operations use in selecting their Captains?
I would have thought that someone from a major, major western airline background, and a native English speaker, would have at least merited an interview. If only because of the first rate training, and the consistency of that training, that they would have received over many, many years.
Well, I just remind you are talking about Arabic countries. So I don't really see the point about being a native English speaker, unless you believe this would bring any kind of skills superiority.
The non-western part of the world is also aware about the fact that westerners are flying strange machines in the sky and I even suspect that they already developed some kind of aviation related skills
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