Turkish airline expatriate experiment can be vastly considered, by numbers a complete failure.By a statistic someone made it would seem that 75% of the pilots that joined before 36 months are not working in THY today. The turnover has been stunning and those that arrive just fill the place of those that leaves. Reasons? Who ever expects Turkey to be anywhere near Europe standards realizes after a short while that this is not the case. By their very nature Turks, in general, tend to consider themselves the best..in everything..even when evidence shows the opposite. Its the result of some kind of inexplicable underlying frustration.Sure they have the record for trashed Airbuses in 2015. If you look at geopolitical situation.. they are at "war" with every neighboring country but Bulgaria..but give it some times.. they will manage to piss off also Europe once and for all. This is a symptom of their attitude...a tad too arrogantly opportunistic and far from genuinely friendly.
Unfortunately their ( over) confidence is too often not supported by real competence.They tend to be anal on details...to show off..but they often miss the big picture or just misread some English word..and also those who get it right fear to point it out. I'm out in a few weeks..it was interesting, convenient logistically but l have to say progressively more and more unpleasant and I cannot suggest anyone to join this outfit. Unacceptable ( not even so ) latent discrimination, too many machos thinking only of villas and Mercedes accepting the inacceptable and risking people lives..., not enough professionalism, organization and the poorest English spoken one one side and a now way too low salary and T&C to compensate for the non operational stress you will have to endure.. Cheers
Last edited by STEXUP; 11th Jan 2016 at 04:41.