again, i agree with clunkdriver (people will start talking
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SinkRateSam, you do seem to appreciate the situation and good luck to you.
In the previous but one post I made the following assertion:
Right now, the market in Europe is saturated. There are a large amount of Low Cost carriers and long established 'legacy carriers' all competing in a well served and condensed market that has seen profitability slashed down to the bone. Coupled with that, is a regulatory base that is ever increasing, which not only further increases operational costs, it makes the market very hostile to new carriers as well as the establishment of new long term routes / city pairs.
Within this, flight crews are caught and as such the base for increased T&C's becomes harder and harder and available jobs become fewer and far between.
that is not postulation or guess work, but hard industry fact. Now, clunckdriver made this assertion:
Its a bit like real estate, Location, Location, Location!
Which again, is fact. In Europe right now, there are many pilots looking for work, the current market cannot absorb them. It is nothing to do with optimism, but hard reality. However, many countries worldwide are starting to shut down their doors to expat pilots in order to protect their own employment market and as a consequence it will only get tougher here in Europe as the available workforce stacks up.