OK Question(s)
Hello,
So are you saying you already have the OK Airways contract? If so, how about some feedback, like what was Simulator Evaluation like? What was the Sim profile and tasks, i.e. High Thrust-Low Speed Reject, Engine Fire on Missed Approach, hand fly Raw Data, double and triple failures systems, etc.? Who or what was in the Right Seat? English or Chinese or Chinglish spoken? Was it done at Tianjin? What hotel did you stay at? Did you have an Interview? What questions were asked?
Heads-up:
Medical should be done at CAAC Hospital in Beijing. Be sure you fast, night before after 22:00 and if over 40 years old, you will do a Cardiac Stress Test, tread mill, so bring Gym Shorts and Track Shoes and towel. 60% don't pass the Medical. An equal number don't pass the ATPL Written Exam. Be sure you get ICAO Level 4, as a minimum on your foreign ATPL, Level 6 even better.
If no contract, yet, but considering it, have you ever been to China? Have you ever been to Tianjin?
Damned cold and frosty/snowy, in the Winter, Blowing Dust other times, pollution, Fog below minimums, and gusty turbulent final approach. Tianjin city, is a boring, arid city.
Regarding actual flight operations, if not off the ground by 08:00 or 09:00, then the PLA Air Farce has finished its group grope and flying, so expect 2 to 4 hours ATC delay, "Departure Time Undetermined", according to ATC, until the Chinese Air Farce releases the airspace for civil aircraft.
OK Airways was grounded by CAAC, management and financial issues. I have known 4 foreign Pilots whom resigned and working else where, now. One a Canadian-Chinese FO, promised Captain, was never honoured . . . though he sang their praises on a website and was there, maybe 7 years. A very nice guy, by the way. Most foreign Captains prefer to live in Beijing and take a train to Tianjin, rather than live in Tianjin.
There is a reason that OK Airways offers a decent salary package, compared to other operations.
I have not worked for OK Airways, personally. Would I? Hmmm, if there was nothing else outside of India or Africa being offered, then yes, I'd give it a go.
The airlines to work for are the ones where they truly value and respect foreign Captains and the knowledge, experience, and skills we bring, where the foreign Captains are happy and not writing about their abysmal experiences on PPRUNE. Right?