Originally Posted by
Preemo
According to Wikipedia the Captain has 5,965 hours and became captain 18 months ago. The minimum hours to be a Captain at FlyDubai is 5,000 hours. Assuming Wikipedia is correct (they quote several sources including NY Times) and the Captain was promoted as soon as he hit 5,000 hours, he averaged 13hrs flying a week over the 18 months. I guess there must be work hours spent around those flying hours, but even 26 hours a week does not strike me (self loading cargo) as being particularly demanding. What am I missing ?
you're missing that the 5.000 hours are the min. for a DEC (direct entry captain). The Captain was with FZ already as an F/O so his promotion was based on seniority/performance and not on the min. hours.