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Old 10th Aug 2011, 10:18
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MCDU2
 
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I don't think they will hire direct entry pilots when they can make over 100'000 euro from wanabes ready to fly in 1-2 years.
Look why don't you take your bitter and twisted sentiments elsewhere. With the greatest respect if you really are 43 years of age and from Switzerland then why in the hell do you think that an Irish based airline would want to hire you? I am afraid you are not in any of their demographics.

At AL the average age of captains on the A320 is approx. 39 years of age. Time to command at the moment is a little bit unclear but it has been running at 10-12 years. Based on that you will be 55 years of age then and have only 5 years of command before you will need to retire at 60. With your increasing age comes all of the other inherent problems that I do not need to spell out.

Unfortunately for you there is nothing in it for AL to offer you a job. You will likely end up costing them money and use them as a stepping stone to another operator once you have them on your CV.
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