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Old 21st Feb 2009, 13:14
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Yep, fairly grim reading indeed Leo.
In all fairness they do seem to have got their act together after the Skyteam audits as part of the condition for joining.
I have several colleagues working there, the general feeling seems to be that standards are much much better, but that there remains a latent " do it by the book/imagination not required " mentality, combined with perhaps less than ideal CRM from the ex Air-Force Korean Capts.
There are also lots of horror stories of expats being failed on conversion courses (particularly on 777 ) mainly it seems for failing to do as bid by rote.
At the end of the day you can't change the mentality & cultural mindset of a nation in 10 years, at least the statistics would tend to support the theory that they are going in the right direction, or maybe they are just having a lucky spell after a previously black period.
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