U airlines No salary payment,No perdiems,Low morale
For anyone interested in U airlines
U airlines is the former Crystal Thai Airlines. The investors are different.They say they have money. But they have trouble in paying the salaries.When they started they could not attract anyone to fly for them. this includes Locals as well as expats Finally they found four expats to join in June 2012.
The company did the initial flight for DCA and was given all the permits to operate. Then ten local Pilots from Thai air asia joined under a new DO . The former DO was moved to another department. He along with his tribes set the rules. they started operations in to China,Korea.
The investor behind the U made bold statements that 17 aeroplanes are coming. its going to be the next best airline in Thailand.......
The DO started to do the upgrades for the Local Pilots . Four Local pilots trained for that. After about a month the simulator training centre asked for the payment of the use of simulator only to find out that the company dont have money to pay. They stopped the simulators. The poor upgrade pilots got stuck with only one sim to go for the check.
The DO then put money from his pocket and paid for the sims inorder to complete the training of his pilots.
The company did not pay the salaries on time for the month of Nov, Dec.
many many dates were given to pilots about the payment But it was allways a broken promise. At last all the local Thai pilots resigned.
The operations was stopped in due to no crew.
The expat pilots was on leave. They were called in to come back early from the vacation. Mind you They still have not paid the salaries. To see the company keep going expats came back early.
Now as with the twists and turns of Thai politics one of the pilots who resigned from the company decided to take up the position as New DO.
This is the Third DO in little as 6 months. they promised payment of November and december salaries in Jan. Then they paid that on 17th of Jan.
There was no perdiems and other expenses paid. Just the salary......
With this the flights continued.
Now few days back they put an add for A320 capts .with a mouth watering offers. many will find out the hard way that the contract is not worth anything...... They break all the promises .
Today the Jan salary is late by 6 days. Then again the DO says will get the salary on Feb 5 ............ No salary. No perdiems.
The engineer says he requests for the parts and no money from the mangement to fix the airplane.
God knows how they get away with these things.
Expat Pilots refuse to fly more than 34 hours in 7 days.....
many many problems.
broken promises............. No salaries......
My friend said this is a disaster waiting to happen.......
he is looking to get out.... as soon as possible....