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Old 6th Sep 2008, 17:44
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Dockjock
 
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With 1000 total, all jet, all F/O, your experience is like a square peg in a round hole for the canadian market, unfortunately.

Pilots here all start in GA, unlike europe or (evidently) mumbai where there is the opportunity to buy a jet type rating and a job with a large airline. No such path exists in Canada as due to the very large and diverse GA industry (instruction, piston charter, bush, seaplane, turboprop, regional, business jet) most entry level jobs are found there. As a result, airlines like Air Canada, Westjet, Air Transat, Jazz, Sunwing etc have an almost unlimited pool of applicants from those areas, mostly with 4x or 5x the experience you currently possess. Since everyone must run through the initial type training anyway, an existing type rating on the 320 is of little benefit in terms of cost savings to the airline doing the hiring. Combine that with the fact that ZOOM just stopped operating and the industry is slowing down, the possibility is remote to slide right into this area immediately.

If you are committed to living in Canada, it will be 2 steps back to get your foot in the door initially.
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