Qatari515,
.........that's right, they will need crews to fly those shiny new aircraft, but they could be coming from outside. The last I heard was that they are so short of crews that they could be hiring direct entry captains for the A300. Are we surprised? I would not, another promise going down the drain. We were told that all A330 openings would be allocated from inside.
Easy to figure out. Pilots are underpaid, overworked, and when they have enough, they quit. So many quit so that they get so behind replacing them and so on and so on..........and if you don't get the 330 or your left seat upgrade, their argument will be it's because of the expansion, because of lack of training pilots, because of this because of that......plus they have a hard time attracting outsiders to come here. They have thousands of applications they say, but they will hire non-rated pilots soon. Whom and what to believe? Huuummmm!!!
But don't forget, just to name a few: no bottles of water in the cockpit, wear your hat, travel to Dubai for your sim in full pilot's attire although you're in command of nothing at that point (where I'm from, that was totally forbidden to do so for obvious reasons). As well, wear your jacket all year round when in Europe. What's the difference? 30 degrees in Europe feels the same than 30 degrees in Doha.When leaving Doha, where do you put that jacket when it's 45 degrees outside, what a drag!!!. A moderm time airline with very obsolete condepts for its employees.
Most of us would like to stay around for quite a while, but.......unless they would like us to leave before the're in a position to replace us with locals.
Cheers!!!
Sorry!
In my previous posting, I meant direct entry captains on the A330, not they A300. That's already happening.
Cheers!