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Old 2nd Feb 2011, 07:07
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Griffon_PMI
 
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Long time without taking a look in the forum!

But everything looks the same than the last season. No jobs at all!
This thread is too famous now and the excess of ppl coming to southern africa cant be absorbed by the operators. I cant talk about Maun, but seems to be really disappointing, and Namibia is not better. Here you have some updates:

Sefofane NAM:
Already hired 5 locals, they will call them 1 by 1 monthly to start training, so no point to try till May.

Wings Over Africa:
Already selected 6 guys. Speak some languages rules. They only needed 5, but finally another one was hired as there is always someone kicked out before finishing training.

Scenic Air:
They hired 4? 2 girls, one of them Namibian... Apparently too much pilots, dont know what are they thinking in, but now is only 6 airplanes (after V5SAA wheels up landing) and more than 10 pilots! And last year was poor in flights, around 30hr/month each pilot.

West Air: No pilots needed. Even for the subsidiary.

Bushbird: Already got 1 pilot in training and 1 in standby... for next months.

BayAir: Bought a new 406... or 402? Maybe needing, but they use to ask for +1000.

By the way, insurance companies rules everything here. No way with less than 400TT.

Hope you have better chance in the future!
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