Towards the back
11th Jul 2010, 13:21
Finally leaving Afriqiyah to hopefully "greener" pastures. I did notice there are new adverts for Afriqiyah put up by Brookfield.
Before anyone jumps at the "opportunity" to join, let me put some things in perspective.
1) Brookfield will do absolutely nothing to help, assist, or otherwise provide any information to you to help you out. If you do have any problems, you're on your own.
2) Afriqiyah, does for the msot part, pay on time. The contract states you will be paid no later than the 5th business day of the month, that's usually when you're paid. However, there have been a few times where the pay was late and Brookfield will do nothing to nudge Afriqiyah along.
3) Living in Tripoli is not too bad, nice people, weather is much better than other places. However, your contract will specify either a hotel or apartment. Right now everyone, that the company is not paying the allowance to, is at the Janzour Beach Resort. Sounds great.....well, think again. Nothing to do around the resort, dirty beaches and loud crowds.
4) If you like your month planned out in advance with minimal changes, this is not the place for you. The rosters change almost on a minute by minute basis.
5) Be prepared to fly up to the mas allowed under the LCAA FTDL. And the nice part is, you will be asked almost on a daily basis to bust your limits.
6) There is a meal allownce in the contract for overnights. However, as an expat, don't expect to get many. That perk goes almost exclusively to the locals as they get almost 300% than the expats.
7) Typical African flying, usual headaches! Aircraft are farily well maintained and new.
8) Expect to have the SOP used for everything but what it was intended for. Language ability of pilots is varied. Makes flying to the EU destinations loads of fun.
9) You do get overtime, but there's a catch. It's only payable if you fly over 90 hours in a full calendar month. So, if you fly the last two days of one month and the first two days of the following month and log 90+ hours. You lose! Brookfield will not do a single thing about that.
10) The expat pilots that are still there are a good bunch of pilots. Hard working, dedicated and trying their best to get the place cleaned up. But, it's an uphill battle and one that I am not sure is doable.
Just trying to provide some information for anyone considering a "change".
Note: Mods if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move.
Before anyone jumps at the "opportunity" to join, let me put some things in perspective.
1) Brookfield will do absolutely nothing to help, assist, or otherwise provide any information to you to help you out. If you do have any problems, you're on your own.
2) Afriqiyah, does for the msot part, pay on time. The contract states you will be paid no later than the 5th business day of the month, that's usually when you're paid. However, there have been a few times where the pay was late and Brookfield will do nothing to nudge Afriqiyah along.
3) Living in Tripoli is not too bad, nice people, weather is much better than other places. However, your contract will specify either a hotel or apartment. Right now everyone, that the company is not paying the allowance to, is at the Janzour Beach Resort. Sounds great.....well, think again. Nothing to do around the resort, dirty beaches and loud crowds.
4) If you like your month planned out in advance with minimal changes, this is not the place for you. The rosters change almost on a minute by minute basis.
5) Be prepared to fly up to the mas allowed under the LCAA FTDL. And the nice part is, you will be asked almost on a daily basis to bust your limits.
6) There is a meal allownce in the contract for overnights. However, as an expat, don't expect to get many. That perk goes almost exclusively to the locals as they get almost 300% than the expats.
7) Typical African flying, usual headaches! Aircraft are farily well maintained and new.
8) Expect to have the SOP used for everything but what it was intended for. Language ability of pilots is varied. Makes flying to the EU destinations loads of fun.
9) You do get overtime, but there's a catch. It's only payable if you fly over 90 hours in a full calendar month. So, if you fly the last two days of one month and the first two days of the following month and log 90+ hours. You lose! Brookfield will not do a single thing about that.
10) The expat pilots that are still there are a good bunch of pilots. Hard working, dedicated and trying their best to get the place cleaned up. But, it's an uphill battle and one that I am not sure is doable.
Just trying to provide some information for anyone considering a "change".
Note: Mods if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move.