Originally Posted by
JammedStab
I was thinking that if EK is really short of experienced pilots, they could dangle the A380 in front of outside guys with no Airbus time as a way to attract people over.
I'm no expert (IANAP), but if any company was externally advertising it's best job I'd start wondering why there was no one inside the company that wanted to take it. Afterall there ought to be plenty of people clamouring to get that job. It's not exactly
encouraging!
Taking it to extremes, you never saw BA advertising Concorde piloting jobs externally. BA had whole legions of pilots who'd made it their career goal to fly at BA with the sole aim of flying Concorde. They would do whatever it took to achieve that. And
AFAIK in BA that simply meant being extremely good at their jobs.