Etihad Airways

[Air_Dream]

Apparently nearlly all Etihad Airways pilots are from Emirates. They are being paid double what they get and their cabin crew are all Gulf Air staff.

[fatbus]

not true, no pilots from EK yet, pay the same and the package is alittle less. some of the pilots are from Airtransat

[SPFlyer]

anyone have any info on the employees of Etihad?

Groundstaff, management etc....?.

I'd be interested to know what morale is like etc.

Cheers.

SPF.

[Air_Dream]

Well Etihads new Airport Manager for LHR is Steve Lowe. - Gulf Air LHR's ex Airport Manager!

And the new regional manager for the Far East is a guy called Mr. Albrow.

[west of 30w]

The guy doing the flight deck application and selection is an English bloke called Cpt Caine, other than that lot of LTU managment, i think!:ok:

[A300Man]

Cabin Crew and cc management from a variety of backgrounds, including one senior manager who is ex- Qatar Airways Amiri Flight. Lots of renowned flight managers and staff ex Air Lanka too.

One senior CSD from QR is just about to join them too. I would say they are a quality outfit.


Pilots - not sure where from, but I heard LTU and Volare.

[YYC F/A]

I agree that they have a quality team in place. They hired a number of very experienced ex C3000 cabin staff, I myself was hired for a cabin services management/trainer position (I had held a similar role at bmi some years back) but another opportunity arose in N America that better suited my lifestyle. I would have taken the job in a flash had it been out here, but my personal preference was to be over here rather than the Mid East.

They've had some troubles of late, and I know some people have become disenfranchised and quit, but from what I hear they are working hard to get things off the ground (excuse the pun) and
I believe they have a great team of people in place to acheive that.

Hope they get it sorted soon.