Evidently Hainan has listened to some issues brought up by the agencies regarding the length of the interviews. They are now broken up into I believe they said 2 days at a time but that means several trips to the interview site.
They are hiring 777 captains who will then be trained on the 787. Longreach also mentioned the 787's are mostly for US and Europe expansion.
Regards to foreign basing…. The airline needs to have from 6 to 8 pilots wanting to go to any particular base whether North America, Australia or European cities. They mentioned a few bases are full… I think it was Amsterdam and Melbourne. It seems it's a reverse type rostering system when based outside China.
1 month on, 1 month off…. WOW!!!
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