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Old 21st Nov 2016, 10:44
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Denti
 
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It all depends what you want and what you are willing to offer. I do see some positivemsigns even in europe, but so far they are very weak and resticted to some very tiny niche markets.

Eurowings for example contacted all air berlin cadets in september and offered them immediate employment at full pay while work would start in may next year. Air berlin retaliated by offering lufthansa cadets a spot beginning of january at much better terms than eurowings offers, and of course offered their own cadets immediate employment at those same terms. Both did that simply to get a known quality of thoroughly selected and trained pilot entrants with a fitting typerating (MPL requires a full type- and linetraining) that do not need much further training. Outside of both pools there are more than enough applicants to fill all those spots.
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