Asiana Contracts - Stay Clear!
Fellows,
Unless your family is starving and you have no options at all, do a favor for yourself: don't even bother to apply for such an outfit.
There is no professional respect at all: evaluation system is a joke; there is an arrogant military attitude all the times; NOBODY speaks a decent English - "training flights" are all done with old guys that keeps silent all the time and when disagree with something just mumbles something barely resembling English or just takes deep breaths like an infuriated alligator.
They fail or pass depending on their humor for the day, never on technical grounds.
There are some horror stories that even BEATING and shouting at Korean first-officers are a regular practice on recurrent simulator sessions.
The mix of subservient local F/O with foreign Capt are potentially dangerous in case something goes wrong. Their moral are the worst possible, as they were supposed to be upgrading to captain at this time.
But local authorities just doubled the necessary flight time recently. So you have a bunch of terribly frustrated guys in their late 40s or 50s looking at their foreign skippers and even the airline like enemys...remember Egyptair...
The list of problems goes much longer: ATC is a mess, there are two big airports with huge traffic surrounded by at least 4 active military AFBs! There are an accident waiting to happen.
A stable roster is a dream: you are constantly on a standby status, everything can change at the very last moment.
No surprise FAA downgraded them!
And Seoul, well...is Seoul. Stinky, polluted, incomprehensible unless you speak Korean. Weather is crazy, expect to be covered by the poisonous Chinese yellow powder that mixed with snow or rain make up for an interesting effect on cars paint...imagine on you.
Too unfortunate some good old eastern european fellows have to be on their knees for this crap!
Just think twice.
[ 24 August 2001: Message edited by: 767driver ]