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Old 15th Oct 2014, 23:04
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OhNoCB
 
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The 717 might be a 'recognised' type (of course it is), but that doesn't make it a useful type rating. It might make hours on it useful hours, or useful experience, but as a type rating to hold it is not going to give you the same opportunities as others.

is there someone else recruiting beside ryan?...for people who have already the licence no

i know is not 737 or 320 but at least you start to log hours and once you get to fo the salary is getting better...
Yes there are others recruiting, just not 24/7 so you have to keep an eye out for the jobs.

The "at least I get experience and then earn money" point is not a good one.

The problem is that the more people who think this and accept bad terms are just damaging terms for everyone INCLUDING themselves. The problem comes whenever Volotea (or whoever) see that they have 1500+ applications from people who will accept to be so poorly paid, and then they will lower the pay further until they get to the point where they are paying so little that they are getting less applications but still enough to fill the seats. They will start paying the FOs the same as the SOs now because they accepted it until this point and then pay the SOs less, and of course you can't just say you don't like and leave because you might not have another job lined up and you have bills to pay.

Everytime people accept rubbish terms, they are basically showing these operators that there are plenty of people who will accept to get paid little or nothing, and it means that eventually when you have your hours and think you have done your time and can now get a "proper" paying job, they will all be paying less.
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