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Kerudu..
You are 110% correct. Its not nice place to work anymore. What you written could be any any of the 250 GJ pilots. All not happy and no motivation to do job. A copilot has 56 days duty now. no one care!
You are 110% correct. Its not nice place to work anymore. What you written could be any any of the 250 GJ pilots. All not happy and no motivation to do job. A copilot has 56 days duty now. no one care!
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Hey Kuredu ,
Keep on crying Big Baby ,
I don't know if you have seen the big picture here , we are facing a economic crunch and I think Global is doing is best to keep the head above the water , in the interest of their employees and owners.
Just for your info or exept if you are coulour blind (most likely) our uniform are not to the DHL livery , we are wearing Brown uniform more like UPS colour.
Keep on crying Big Baby ,
I don't know if you have seen the big picture here , we are facing a economic crunch and I think Global is doing is best to keep the head above the water , in the interest of their employees and owners.
Just for your info or exept if you are coulour blind (most likely) our uniform are not to the DHL livery , we are wearing Brown uniform more like UPS colour.
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GUSTO - you management types make me laugh! Could you please refrain from masquerading here on pprune as anything other than the moronic GlobalJet Manager you so obviously are...
The French are infamous for nepotistic promotion and favouritism to their own. If what you say is true about it being a French Company with French Managers, then for a non-French national, it would be a great place to stay away from !
Of course, should Luxembourg elect to expel you, you need not worry about finding another non-French country to base your French company in. The UK would love to have you, along with all the other gazillion nationalities that fly for UK based operations.
The French are infamous for nepotistic promotion and favouritism to their own. If what you say is true about it being a French Company with French Managers, then for a non-French national, it would be a great place to stay away from !
Of course, should Luxembourg elect to expel you, you need not worry about finding another non-French country to base your French company in. The UK would love to have you, along with all the other gazillion nationalities that fly for UK based operations.
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'Glad I was not the only one kept waiting for hours to see Antoine David. What an egotistic b'stard! What is this idiot on? Complete waste of time and money. Thanks Antoine, see you round the block sometime!
'Glad I was not the only one kept waiting for hours to see Antoine David. What an egotistic b'stard! What is this idiot on? Complete waste of time and money. Thanks Antoine, see you round the block sometime!
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The French are infamous for nepotistic promotion and favouritism to their own. If what you say is true about it being a French Company with French Managers, then for a non-French national, it would be a great place to stay away from !
Do you think British/South Africans/Australians are not behaving the same in the Middle East? This is the very unfair way human beings interact and you should take it as it is since I doubt you would change a thing about the damn French. Time to grow up.
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What is AD's purpose of making interviewees wait for hours? I waited for four hours sitting in that bloody board room, going crazy and ended up having to cancel and rebook my flight home...needless to say, I'm not French!
The whole interview process is a signal of bad things to come...if they treat potential employees like that at the interview, how are they going to treat you when you are working for them? A company needs you as much as you need them! Obviously doesn't apply in this case!
It wasn't worth waiting for and I should have just left...four hours for a ten minute interview so that he could fill in a form.
I never heard back from them and I'm grateful for it!
The whole interview process is a signal of bad things to come...if they treat potential employees like that at the interview, how are they going to treat you when you are working for them? A company needs you as much as you need them! Obviously doesn't apply in this case!
It wasn't worth waiting for and I should have just left...four hours for a ten minute interview so that he could fill in a form.
I never heard back from them and I'm grateful for it!
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I don't work there anymore.. but
It's a good company. It's funny reading all the posts on here, most of which are a little creative about the truth.
AD is the boss. You can't speak to him directly, he's like some character in a James Bond film, he exists behind a white paper screen where you only see a silhouette of himself a cat on his knee. You talk to him through the Chief Pilot. You do actually meet him at interview. He is precisely an hour late for First Officers and generally more for Captains. It's all part of the process, don't be upset, it works out well generally.
The Chief Pilot is a thoroughly nice guy. He ends up doing the dirty work (occasionally an owner will sell up and the crew need to be waved goodbye). I know of one 4 man crew and an individual who were laid off but were eventually offered something when it came up in the months afterwards.
The office staff in Luxembourg and Geneva are generally very good indeed. You need to send two emails for everything, separated by 24hrs. Phone call always works. They don't do 'irony', it's culturally not good. Engineering support by phone is very good. If you're ex airlines/raf you need to get used to fixing what you can, where you are, with your phone on speakaphone.
There is no general preference for French folk there. It doesn't seem to make a difference overall. Everyone speaks good English, but it would look good if you could speak a little French. I think if you are English, German or in-between, it is assumed you will be working hard for a living and not going on strike every 6 months. If you are Italian or Spanish, you need to be aware that donning your sunglasses, licking your hand and gelling your hair will not do! just kidding.
They are expanding in that they never say no to a new plane. There was 60+ planes last time I looked with 767/A319, a few Globals, Challengers etc. London bases -maybe about 20 pilot UK based. Usually 2on/2off. They tend to contract to 20/10 to cover themselves if something goes wrong. All crew changes paid for by company. Used to fly you business class for flights over 4 hours. This was appreciated. Try Tel Aviv to London in the back of easyjet..ouch. Hotels generally very good. The days of the Hilton have long gone (for most, not all), but mostly the stays are good.
The money is generally pretty good, like TAG, but in Euros. Every man is paid differently. You have to argue smartly at your interview, not a year later. It pisses them off. Pension is fantastic, IF you stay long enough to get it. Phone allowance is 200 euros. Per-diems 90euros/day. Captains on Global £100k+, FOs up to £60k. Expect to find your flight attendant getting paid close to or more than the FOs. Yes this causes all sorts of light-hearted utter confusion, and occasionally, the worst situation - the f/a gets close to the principal passenger and there is a bizarre authority imbalance on the plane. Doesn't happen often, but when it does, you don't want to hang around.
The uniform is a drawback. I understand it was designed by a raving fairy male flight attendant, the pilots had no design input into it. Think UPS. It's dark brown. Was cut by some outrageously expensive design house in Paris..and when I went to replace my Hermes tie myself, the nearest one (brown) was 140euros. I liked mine, I could walk around the supermarket in full kit and it was assumed I was a geography teacher at a private school, or a concierge at a boutique hotel. I didn't look like a pilot. But when your passenger is a billionaire who wears florescent green trainers, I think the point gets a little lost. *But, I hear a new uniform is on it's way, next year!*
I don't think there are more than a couple of lady pilots in the company (I could be wrong) but the "two blokes and a hostie" formula is one we all preferred and since positive discrimination was not really forced on us, we stuck with what we were happiest with.
I haven't come across a single 5 Sqn/RAF or military pilot in the ranks as yet. There was one or two euro guys, not sure now. I have liked all 5 Sqn guys I have met at Burgess Hill so far (even if you all do that weird thing about introducing yourselves as being in the RAF..and then pausing for two seconds as if waiting for some sort of expected nod/salute/fanfair/high-five etc, it's not good for that olde rapport thing), but all have been real nice guys. I think you need about 3500hours to skipper the bd700, so do another tour until you've got it.. 200 hours a year is normal on this thing, faster to stay in the mob and look for that 100k command when you get out.
It's 'generally' a very good company with big ambitions. Yes there are some bad things that happen, but mostly good if you keep your head down, don't asked to be rebased every ten minutes and just get on with it.
Best of luck
It's a good company. It's funny reading all the posts on here, most of which are a little creative about the truth.
AD is the boss. You can't speak to him directly, he's like some character in a James Bond film, he exists behind a white paper screen where you only see a silhouette of himself a cat on his knee. You talk to him through the Chief Pilot. You do actually meet him at interview. He is precisely an hour late for First Officers and generally more for Captains. It's all part of the process, don't be upset, it works out well generally.
The Chief Pilot is a thoroughly nice guy. He ends up doing the dirty work (occasionally an owner will sell up and the crew need to be waved goodbye). I know of one 4 man crew and an individual who were laid off but were eventually offered something when it came up in the months afterwards.
The office staff in Luxembourg and Geneva are generally very good indeed. You need to send two emails for everything, separated by 24hrs. Phone call always works. They don't do 'irony', it's culturally not good. Engineering support by phone is very good. If you're ex airlines/raf you need to get used to fixing what you can, where you are, with your phone on speakaphone.
There is no general preference for French folk there. It doesn't seem to make a difference overall. Everyone speaks good English, but it would look good if you could speak a little French. I think if you are English, German or in-between, it is assumed you will be working hard for a living and not going on strike every 6 months. If you are Italian or Spanish, you need to be aware that donning your sunglasses, licking your hand and gelling your hair will not do! just kidding.
They are expanding in that they never say no to a new plane. There was 60+ planes last time I looked with 767/A319, a few Globals, Challengers etc. London bases -maybe about 20 pilot UK based. Usually 2on/2off. They tend to contract to 20/10 to cover themselves if something goes wrong. All crew changes paid for by company. Used to fly you business class for flights over 4 hours. This was appreciated. Try Tel Aviv to London in the back of easyjet..ouch. Hotels generally very good. The days of the Hilton have long gone (for most, not all), but mostly the stays are good.
The money is generally pretty good, like TAG, but in Euros. Every man is paid differently. You have to argue smartly at your interview, not a year later. It pisses them off. Pension is fantastic, IF you stay long enough to get it. Phone allowance is 200 euros. Per-diems 90euros/day. Captains on Global £100k+, FOs up to £60k. Expect to find your flight attendant getting paid close to or more than the FOs. Yes this causes all sorts of light-hearted utter confusion, and occasionally, the worst situation - the f/a gets close to the principal passenger and there is a bizarre authority imbalance on the plane. Doesn't happen often, but when it does, you don't want to hang around.
The uniform is a drawback. I understand it was designed by a raving fairy male flight attendant, the pilots had no design input into it. Think UPS. It's dark brown. Was cut by some outrageously expensive design house in Paris..and when I went to replace my Hermes tie myself, the nearest one (brown) was 140euros. I liked mine, I could walk around the supermarket in full kit and it was assumed I was a geography teacher at a private school, or a concierge at a boutique hotel. I didn't look like a pilot. But when your passenger is a billionaire who wears florescent green trainers, I think the point gets a little lost. *But, I hear a new uniform is on it's way, next year!*
I don't think there are more than a couple of lady pilots in the company (I could be wrong) but the "two blokes and a hostie" formula is one we all preferred and since positive discrimination was not really forced on us, we stuck with what we were happiest with.
I haven't come across a single 5 Sqn/RAF or military pilot in the ranks as yet. There was one or two euro guys, not sure now. I have liked all 5 Sqn guys I have met at Burgess Hill so far (even if you all do that weird thing about introducing yourselves as being in the RAF..and then pausing for two seconds as if waiting for some sort of expected nod/salute/fanfair/high-five etc, it's not good for that olde rapport thing), but all have been real nice guys. I think you need about 3500hours to skipper the bd700, so do another tour until you've got it.. 200 hours a year is normal on this thing, faster to stay in the mob and look for that 100k command when you get out.
It's 'generally' a very good company with big ambitions. Yes there are some bad things that happen, but mostly good if you keep your head down, don't asked to be rebased every ten minutes and just get on with it.
Best of luck
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Perhaps as much as a million to one at present 
- however on my induction course there was a chap who was a friend of the owner who had just completed his CPL/IR and subsequently flew his aeroplane (BD-700) with a little less than what you have now. All the best
- however on my induction course there was a chap who was a friend of the owner who had just completed his CPL/IR and subsequently flew his aeroplane (BD-700) with a little less than what you have now. All the best
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yeah thought so,
Its pretty handy having a old friend with a private jet laying around somewere.
(I not that lucky...)
Still sending my cv though we'll see what happens...
Its pretty handy having a old friend with a private jet laying around somewere.
(I not that lucky...)
Still sending my cv though we'll see what happens...
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There seems to be a number of different emails to which one should send a CV, i.e. some ending in 'globaljetlux.com', 'globaljetconcept.com' etc..
does anyone know which is the actual email to send CV's too, Thanks.
does anyone know which is the actual email to send CV's too, Thanks.
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Here is the link to the Silver-Arrows site which you cannot access but it does have a couple of links down the right-hand side. One of which is the email for applications. Bon chance.
Silver Arrows (Inside)
Silver Arrows (Inside)
Last edited by Grum; 17th Feb 2011 at 14:08. Reason: bad email address