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Old 2nd Jul 2008, 05:53
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jimmyg
 
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Real deal

All the above for the most part is truth. The company operates under a FAA part 29, which more or less means they operate in the gray area between the FAA and the hosts country's DGCA; in this case Kuwait. United Aviation was owned by KIPCO a large Q8 conglomorate and sold to Tatweer Infrastructure a Qatar development firm and is micro managed by a young CEO with absolutely no experience other than he has the Microsoft Legacy flight Sim on his computer. Since then things have been in a rapid decent, which is most unfortunate since as already been stated that the company has a monopoly with the exclusive rights to the only Charter AOC for the state. I believe this is due to end sometime around March of 09. They are also being kept out of the new executive terminal which is owned by KIPCO; due to the mismanagement of the company. Many good pilots and managers have come and gone. You are senior if you can make it thru the 6 months.

On the bright side you will have the opportunity to fly and visit some exotic destinations that one would never fly to. Although these seem to be few and far between as many of the better customers they had only use them when they cannot find better operators. The pay is not bad and they do pay on time. Not to bad a gig if you have a high pain tolerance and can push the operational limits of the Legacy. They do have a high standard and will pretty much only hire high time jet and Legacy operator. Has the potential for greatness if they could only get their act together.
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