QFlink Exodus 2.0
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why the need to hold an ATPL to be an FO???
So one day they can be a Captain......
why the need to hold an ATPL to be an FO???
So one day they can be a Captain......
Ansett for example had to nip this in the bud and I believe gave CPL first officers two years to pass the SCPL theory exams or get the boot. Might even have been less than two years. Some SCPL candidates failed the exams continually and left the airline.
After that, the trend was the airlines required all theory exams to have been passed before joining the airline. Similar to present day. All the above from memory which can be unreliable at times.
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I get all of that, but under wonderful CASA's new system making it cost prohibitive to get an actual ATPL, even if you have all of your ATPL subject passes it seems you're unemployable by an airline in Australia.
why the need to hold an ATPL to be an FO???
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No Need to go Overseas
50 Cadets at QF, 90 to Network, JQ employing, QF expanding, etc.
Here we go boys! Funny how the industry works. Middle East suffering and China about to die. Australia expanding.
God help the clowns going overseas. They must'nt read the posts on pprune too well. Sham we cant access the EK, CX, CS, CE, etc forums to read just how bad it is.
Here we go boys! Funny how the industry works. Middle East suffering and China about to die. Australia expanding.
God help the clowns going overseas. They must'nt read the posts on pprune too well. Sham we cant access the EK, CX, CS, CE, etc forums to read just how bad it is.
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It's true QLink are desperate!
Did an interview about 5 years ago, was told to re-apply in 6 months. Never did.
6 years later, they email me asking to update my application and want me to pay for a psychometric test.
No thanks Qlink! You had your chance
Did an interview about 5 years ago, was told to re-apply in 6 months. Never did.
6 years later, they email me asking to update my application and want me to pay for a psychometric test.
No thanks Qlink! You had your chance
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They are about to become a whole lot more desperate. A bunch of Captains about to resign, and they reward there remaining crew by driving them harder, 10 hour 6 sector shifts, double O/N's etc. OH!, and they act surprised when even more leave this paradise!Even some FO's are giving it the rear end treatment because its becoming unsustainable. Be careful what you wish for potential applicants.
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(*assuming they don't go down the path of applying for 457 Visas due to lack of "suitable candidates". Which HAS already been done by multiple companies in Australia..)
SN, south of the boarder 10hr duties are fairly common on day 1 of an O/N, but we don't see 6 sector days. No talk of more Eastern crew jumping ship just yet.
FTS, we now have a command assessment process, so for whoever has been screened and is in the pool (and i'd imagine over 2/3 F/O ranks are eligible) bypass pay will be up for grabs as soon as they start adding DEC to the bottom of seniority, assuming they get added of course.
FTS, we now have a command assessment process, so for whoever has been screened and is in the pool (and i'd imagine over 2/3 F/O ranks are eligible) bypass pay will be up for grabs as soon as they start adding DEC to the bottom of seniority, assuming they get added of course.
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You're wasting your time banging your heads against the wall about this issue when it simply isn't true.
On another issue, definition of Exodus: 'mass departure of people'
Let's assume mass departure = 1/4 of pilots, does that sound fair? I'll eat my hat, wings, bars and tie if 125 pilots QL pilots go to EK.
Whoever started this thread should get a job at a newscorp paper, the sensationalism is top notch!
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Bear in mind that this thread was created just over three years ago.
IIRC, some crew left but there wasn't an "exodus" then.
Today, well, our "management" aren't predicting another 2007/2008 when we lost 40% of our pilots. But...
Last year: 40 FO's to Cathay, a few leaving due to the base closures, and a couple of Captains leaving for Virgin.
This year: 4 pilots already left for EK. 2 more to EFA and elsewhere. 50 Qantas cadets to leave over the next 12 months or so, plus LOI holders. Rumoured up to 20 FO's waiting for Cathay start dates, rumoured at least seven more Captains waiting EK start dates. Rumoured around 60 Sunstate pilots applying for EK right now.
A lot of rumours there, but I wouldn't be writing off 125 pilots leaving within 12 months just yet.
DIVOSH!
IIRC, some crew left but there wasn't an "exodus" then.
Today, well, our "management" aren't predicting another 2007/2008 when we lost 40% of our pilots. But...
Last year: 40 FO's to Cathay, a few leaving due to the base closures, and a couple of Captains leaving for Virgin.
This year: 4 pilots already left for EK. 2 more to EFA and elsewhere. 50 Qantas cadets to leave over the next 12 months or so, plus LOI holders. Rumoured up to 20 FO's waiting for Cathay start dates, rumoured at least seven more Captains waiting EK start dates. Rumoured around 60 Sunstate pilots applying for EK right now.
A lot of rumours there, but I wouldn't be writing off 125 pilots leaving within 12 months just yet.
DIVOSH!
50 Qantas cadets to leave over the next 12 months or so