THY Turkish Captains will fly w/out payment - or: why will THY never be attractive
Just think about:
You join an employer, you work there, show loyality, and when things turn bad, you try to move on, but you do not get, because you have been exactly with THIS employer.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! but this is THY,
and it happened to all pilots, who wanted to go to China. Chinese to not accept Turkish nationals, nor Expats, who worked in Turkey, unless they had been working outside Turkey for mim 2 years.
On top the latest info, just received about an internal pilot discussion inside THY, a month ago.
The subject came up, when an expat pilot posted some ideas to make the job working for THY more attractive.
He mentioned a salary increase for compensating of worst ever dropping Turkish Lira to the 4.2 ration, and since it is affecting expats most, to compensate that for expats.
Remarkable is, that only 4 years ago, the value was 2.2, and just within the past month, the Turlish Lira overran the 4.5 mark.
Analyst saying, it is in a deadly spiral connecting economy numbers to currency and vice versa. They say, the 5 will come soon and no indication that it will stop.
I was told, that many Turkish do not write in English to avoid expat to read that.
This post was send to me, as an existing example. Therefore I used translater and then it becomes clear, why there are too much troubles working there and never ever will be an attractive working climate.
XXX ve YYY Kaptanlarımın yazdıklarına kesinlikle katılıyorum.Yabancıbir kaptanın Türk hava yollarında bir Türk kaptandan bir kuruş fazla maaş alması veya programlarındaki bir ayrıcalık asla kabul ed ilemez.
Biz gerekirse maaş almadan da uçarız, Saygılar
I strongly agree with the writings of XXX and YYY Captains.
A foreign captain's salary on a Turkish captain over a Turkish captain or a privilege in his programs is never acceptable.
We will fly without pay if necessary, Sincerely
Urrgghhh, poor situation for pilots there! No worries to go into trouble !
And for FOs, there is a looong, so looong queu, because there was no upgrades for a long time and those pilots who stayed, they were close for upgrade. Now they think to reduce mim experience time for upgrade, what means, that many Turkish staying longer inside THY will bypass the expats, who joined with high experience.
It is not only the expats who are running away. Also the Turkish pilots left and still more are going on interviews etc.
Even in that bad situation, the management is not giving back the salary increase for 2017, who was given by employers to safe their job.
Good luck