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Fella1967
16th Oct 2007, 17:03
Hi all,
My first post here so forgive me if this has been this has been talked about before.
I fly a fair bit and have noticed lots of Dutch pilots at Easyjet, seems normal to me. Earlier this year I started using KLM out of Birmingham, I normally use the 737 service and noticed that there were some English sounding First Offcers, I was just wondering if KLM took on English pilots?
I'd be interested to hear what the story was on those guys and how they wound up in KLM.
Rainboe
16th Oct 2007, 22:11
Ex Air UK pilots taken over by KLM.
Chris733
17th Oct 2007, 00:03
All ex Fokker 50/100 from KLMuk, moved over about 4 years ago and eventually got on the KLM mainline fleet
Ennie
17th Oct 2007, 08:14
I'm one of them.
Ex KLM uk F50 First Officers, we waited for the 737 just shy of 3 years after joining the mainline list.
I quite often fly the BHX leg so it may have even been me, see you next time!
A Very Civil Pilot
18th Oct 2007, 06:59
Ennie
So how is it at KLM mainline? I had the option at the changeover time, but stayed with buzz (and redundancy.....!)
Ennie
18th Oct 2007, 07:45
Morning,
I often hear about you guys who were made redundant, I had only been in KLM uk 3 months when we had the chance to swap so I didn't know much about what was going on, I was of course very sorry to see how things went down hill for you guys and I hope things have worked out for you now.
Life at KLM is good, on the 737 we have different types of flying which is mixed up, one week you can fly back and forward to the UK several times with a Milan or Paris somewhere along the way, a week later you're on 3 stretch day to begin staying in Edinburgh, then down to Athens or Istanbul for a 24 hour stop and just one back ariving at 8am - nice weather and time to relax a bit on these trips. I also managed to fly to Beirut and Damascus before these routes were stopped, was nice to go once anyway!
I still live in the UK so having a nightstopping fleet is good, commuting sometimes gets me down but generally it's ok. Crews are great, I try to speak a bit of Dutch, I understand it well which helps.