"As I said to my wife: I went to Air Canada for the wages and the job security. I found neither!!"
<sigh> I know how you feel.
I am an AC Jazzer (whether that means I'm an AC'er or not depends on the topic at hand, of course). Two years and 4 lay-off threats later, I am also fed-up. As I tell people when asked-- "I work in a dead-end job in a failing company, not earning enough to make financial ends meet, and they want to lay me off and reduce my colleagues' wages." Not the ingredients which morale is made of, it would appear.
Responding to your question-- you can qualify it as a response from someone who doesn't exactly know what they are talking about, since I do not work for either of the "Big 3" in the Gulf.
I would not read into their minimum quals too much. If they say 1000 hours jet-- read it exactly as that. Our Chief Pilot, xxxxxxxx (name removed) recently went to Emirates. To my best knowledge, his only jet time was in BAe 146's and of course he spent more time behind a desk than in the flight deck. I imagine that they have many resumes, and they will be weighing one against the other, however it is like playing the lottery-- your chances may not be good, however, unless you buy a ticket, your chances will be zip (oops, did I say that-- I mean zilch!)
Good luck on your career hunt.
Last edited by 4HolerPoler; 13th April 2003 at 05:20.