Okay Airways

[ronnie3585]

Read today on Avweb that the new (and first) private Chineese airline Okay Airways are looking to recruit approx 8000 foreign pilots. Is this true, does anyone have any more info as Okay Airways dont seem to have a website.

[Lil' Pilot]

8000?!?!? :eek: :eek:

Don't think so, since they only operate 2 leased 737's as far as I know. Would be nice though :hmm:

[ronnie3585]

http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_11b/briefs/189369-1.html

I found that number a little unbelieveable too, but thats what it says on the website.

[Lil' Pilot]

Hmmm interesting..

They have a good point saying that China has no (or little) GA, so they are going to have to attract foreigners to fly their aircrafts. So the question is...what are the plans for expansion. They have just started with 1 or 2 leased 737-900's (former Korean Air). Wonder when this number will increase. We'll see.
Anyway it's positive news then :ok:

[CosmosSchwartz]

Ronnie - The 8000 refers to the requirements of ALL the new private chinese airlines over the next 10 years, not just OKAY airways.

No airline has 8000 pilots, that's not far off every ATPL in the UK!

[Matron]

With 8000 hours and only 2 aircraft I think that duty time issues would be less pressing than noted in other forums on pprune.

In fact, in your spare time you will no doubt have time to learn the language(s) and pick up other skills such as knitting, golf, taxidermy, etc...

[N2334M]

Does anybody know their website ?

[TheFlyingDJ]

According to their paintsheme, it should be okair.net.

Check this (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/789884/L/)

But no site at that adress? I'll try and find out more.

edit: found some more info here (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/11/content_423787.htm)

[flycold]

I found an article about their web.

here it is. ==>>

OK Airlines' Online Presence
Here's an example of an online marketing campaign gone awry: China has approved a number of airlines to start low-fare services on domestic routes. The first airline launched this past Friday, and it's called OK Air.

Now, emblazoned on the sides of each new OK Air jet is the logo for the airline, incorporating it's domain name of okair.net.


http://www.chinatechnews.com/blog/archives/images/okairlines.gif

This picture has been all over the Chinese and foreign media, but the website at www.okair.net is still not built and is not functioning. I did a whois lookup and found the company also bought okayair.net, but that too is sans website.

You would think that which such hoopla, the company could at least launch its website on time, or at least put up a very simple page that tells users like me that the website will be available soon.

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conclusion ; not open yet! ;)

ps. they have some young pilots from swiss and brasil.

[Lil' Pilot]

Does anyone know how you can apply there? Any contact informations?

[two speed prop 3]

$2500 per month to fly 737's. Yeah great where do I apply :O

[TheFlyingDJ]

Well i've sent an email to [email protected] and did not receive a reply saying that the adress is inaccurate ;)

So maybe there is someone behind it reading it right now :D