SAA - Slovenian Aeronautical Academy

[Mikith]

Hi,

Do you know anything about this school and their A320 Type Rating 0 hour First Officer program ?

They have a partnership with an european airline (unknown at this time) and they are conducting a kind of cadet scheme with them.

[bal00n]

I sent my CV to the e-mail address given in the advertisement. After a few days I got a reply with 3 questions, e.g. am I able to pay for the TR?. Additionally, They wrote that all information would be given during the interview. Nothing more.

[Intrance]

I hope you wrote back that the information they are asking for will be provided during the interview as well :rolleyes:

[Mikith]

Ok so here are the updates :
- 26k€ for A320 type rating
- Line training with Air Croatia
- 30k€ for 300h
Another ******* P2F....

[Pinuz89]

Is there any sort of contract or just hours ?

[Fixedgear]

After you fly the 300 hours you are back on the street and another desperate low hour individual takes your place.

At least a few years ago you would pay €50.000 for 500 hours and type, now that has even been reduced to 300:ugh:.

Also understand that during a P2F program the Captain will not make any effort to teach you anything, basically reducing the whole operation to single pilot ops.

[Mikith]

I agree,
The only solution to stop this epidemic (and I'm not talking about Covid) is to boycott massively and/or update labour legislation accordingly as we did in France.

[Pinuz89]

Fixedgear

Is this something that you think, or is that what they said ?
I'm just asking bacause when I read the advert for this position they mentioned a contract

[Mikith]

They propose a 2 year contract based on the following :
- A320 type rating : 30k€
- A320 line training : 35k€
First salary : 1500€ which increases after passing line training / 1000 hours TT
After these 2 years, they pay back.... We all know here that it will never happen
Name of the airline : not communicated

[Hogos]

Ahah it's really funny, because I got the interview and they said me a different thing.
I'm already type rated, they wanted 49k€ just for the line training, and permanent contract.
Airline not comunicated as well.

So for the line training there are 3 different prices: I read 30 then 35 and 49 in my case, ridiculous !

[Mikith]

49 ! lucky you !
That was a moment.... The two guys looked nice and clever, how can they propose such a :mad: to applicants ?
Anyway... I hope they didn't manage to trap someone

[Pinuz89]

any further updates from anyone ?
has anyone gone through or with other numbers ?

[AxelB]

Mikith

From how I understood is that you have earned as much as you spent on TR and LT after around 2 years. Not that you get the money you invested as a single payment.

[Dhakan Dhakan]

hi guys.. just wanted to know did any of you join SAA?
even I asked about the program just a couple a days back .

[kitenation]

Wait a second... 49 k € for 100h LT? this make it 490€ an hour... the highest salaries I know from good times is 200€ for and experienced captain and about 110 € for FO... This mean its not really a job, but a way to make someone cover the rest of the crew's salary and part of the fuel... Looks like a good way to cut loses when the airline have a load facotor of 30%... now i know how they manage to operate those flights without making significant loses.