You'll start flying around 2.5 months after joining date. Line training takes about a month.
Some guys starting in April have just been given 10 days vacation plus the rest as CU (Can use days) for July as a shortage of training captains is starting to bite. So the company have said 'have 10 days leave on us, just be fresh and stand by the phone for the rest of the month on training reserve'. Not a bad way to start with Emirates. However when the training finishes...
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