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When you outsource the hiring, you set minimum requirements, but the employee is hired by the contract company practices. You get what get.
Rumors are rumors, so I will not dig deeper than already done. But no smoke without fire.
If you could read Scandinavian newspapers the last 10 years, then you would know what race to the bottom means. Average pilot salaries in scandiland is a fraction of what it was. And Kjoss fight with NAS union has been ugly.
And don't worry about me. I got over 20 years in my present airline and do not need to apply to Norwegian. I do not blame the pilots at Norwegian, they like the rest of us just want a job. It is the Norwegian business scheme that is the problem for western pilot unions.
Btw, skytrax also awarded Qatar Airways. Everybody knows what kind of working conditions exist down there. And yes, you could again say the salary is good, tax free etc. Does not help!