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Old 19th Jan 2010, 11:32
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I would very much like to point out.

One of the reasons a company demands certain languages is obvious.

You can't work in a country where all the staff speaks 3 languages and yet you don't speak or barely speak the native language of said country.

It shows lack of willingness to integrate with that company.
A lack of willingness to do so can indicate that you probably aren't going to stick around long. Not to mention that you have to deal with people inside the company that do work day by day purely in the native language.


Quite a few airlines in Germany demand 2-3 languages. Yes some will fall back a bit on the requirement if the person has several thousand hours jet and a type rating. However... they will expect them to learn basic is my supposition.

The above mentioned airline isn't any different and at least they are asking for one of the 3 languages and not all three.

Finncom is yet another airline asking for fluent Finnish as well as English.

Also quite a number of Scandinavian countries ask for similar.

In all fairness, at least said airline isn't asking you to part way with 20.000 or more to do a rating. I'm sure learning a language would cost quite a bit less.

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