Sure is they are struggling to find pilots left or right seat on all fleets. Many are leaving as well. A strong USD has made the Gulf more and more attractive and THY salary and conditions lag behind even more seen the weak TL. The main issue is the inability to admit their shortcomings and acknowledge the fact that expat have different needs. Moving to Istanbul a family is a big issue without any sort of benefit.. Rosters remain s a big issue on narrow body with min time off. The 4 block day off they think of as a benefit and max 20 days of leave plus salary deduction for sick leave and few other draconian rules do not help.Few other practices do not seem to fit into a major global airline. The benchmark as some one correctly said are still local ex military pilots working their asses off to maintain their spoiled kids in as ineffective as expensive private schools and uncritically taking it as it comes . Quality and quantity cannot go together.Overall their expansion ambitions seems unrealistic..but I belieive they have the capability to find solutions once they will get rid of some "ballast". A few holes in the cheese remains aligned and the expansion will make them bigger unless some radical change will happen soon. This also in terms of expat T&C. Not much would be needed to attract the right candidates ( starting with equal conditions on all fleets) and not Lion Air P2F and turboprop kids... not really what THY needs.
Last edited by furbpilot; 8th Apr 2015 at 05:16.