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Old 17th Jul 2016, 12:22
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All pilots complain and I agree that pprune is just a small section of the worldwide pilot group who are on an endless task of trying to find airline nirvana.

However, don't use it as an excuse to disregard all the bad points that are written about FZ.

Yes, guys in BA, AA moan about pension schemes. EK moan that their profit share should have been 8 weeks instead of 4.

Guys in FZ don't moan about that stuff because they are too busy discussing that another destination they fly too is in middle of a war zone. I used to have conversations on the flight deck where we almost justified flying to Erbil "isn't that bad" because the timings are during the day. In context Erbil is less than 20nm form Mosul, the current de facto capital of ISIS.
That is FZ in a nutshell, things are so bad when it comes to rostering, night flying, and general security around the route network that places like Erbil, Kabul, Quetta are actively bid for.

Go to FZ so you can scratch your itch to fly big shiney jets, but don't bring your family, don't buy a house, don't get a loan, because in 2 years that itch will have been scratched, all hope and dedication will have been sucked out of you by the endless stupidity of the airline and the city it's based in. You will then be uprooting your family again to move somewhere else, and if you joined as an FO and don't get your command you will have no money in your pockets either.
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