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mari, are you sure more A380's wont come till april? thats really bad news cause the training might not start till later next year then. i had my AD 4 weeks ago and still no news. ive called a few times but just get through to a machine. im really anxious to find out if i got the job and when i can start now, it feels like ive waited for ages...
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Nothing is sure in aviation industry!!! Recruitment might stop for a while, though... (I don't mean to be negative, just realistic.)
DUBAI - Emirates is facing delivery delays for some of its Airbus A380s, its chairman said on Wednesday, but added the airline does not plan to cancel any of its order.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum said some deliveries have been delayed by a “short period”, without going into further detail.
“I know there is a bit of delay but I do not have the right number of days or months on that," Sheikh Ahmed said at a press conference ahead of the Dubai Airshow. "It’s just a short period."
Asked whether the airline is looking at scaling back its A380 order as a result of the delays, Sheikh Ahmed said: “We are sticking to the number of 58.”
Emirates, the Arab world’s largest carrier, is Airbus’s biggest customer for the A380 with total order of 58 aircraft. The airline has already taken delivery of five A380.
Sheikh Ahmed’s comments follow remarks made by the airline’s president, Tim Clark, that route expansion plans would be impacted next year due A380 delivery delays.
"Some of our route expansion plans will be impacted due to a further delay in the delivery of A380s,” Clark was quoted as saying by UAE daily Gulf News on Wednesday. He said plans to redeploy Airbus's superjumbo to New York had been pushed back by "at least six months".
Clark said later in the day the delivery setback will impact “one or two” of the 15 A380s the airline was scheduled to receive by June next year.
"We should have had 15 by June 2010 ... we are getting two in December and then the remaining 8 between January and November next year, so one or two are being pushed back,” he told news agency Reuters by telephone.
The A380 has been plagued by delays due to production problems that pushed the plane programme more than two years behind schedule.
Clark said Emirates could buy more aircraft from Airbus and Boeing once the global economy moves out of recession.
"We are looking at it (buying more planes) ... we are making the assessments, but clearly with the growth we have and the profit we made, there is nothing to suggest after the recession we shouldn't move rapidly," he told Reuters.
Emirates posted a 165 percent rise in first half profits earlier this month, driven by lower costs. Revenues, meanwhile, fell 13.5 percent during the period.
Sheikh Ahmed said Emirates expects better revenues in the second half of the year. “It should be a very good year for us," he said.
Nov 11, 2009
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By the way, 150 people attended today in Bratislava. So, cv drop-off. They are waiting for the call now to get invited for the assessment.
DUBAI - Emirates is facing delivery delays for some of its Airbus A380s, its chairman said on Wednesday, but added the airline does not plan to cancel any of its order.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum said some deliveries have been delayed by a “short period”, without going into further detail.
“I know there is a bit of delay but I do not have the right number of days or months on that," Sheikh Ahmed said at a press conference ahead of the Dubai Airshow. "It’s just a short period."
Asked whether the airline is looking at scaling back its A380 order as a result of the delays, Sheikh Ahmed said: “We are sticking to the number of 58.”
Emirates, the Arab world’s largest carrier, is Airbus’s biggest customer for the A380 with total order of 58 aircraft. The airline has already taken delivery of five A380.
Sheikh Ahmed’s comments follow remarks made by the airline’s president, Tim Clark, that route expansion plans would be impacted next year due A380 delivery delays.
"Some of our route expansion plans will be impacted due to a further delay in the delivery of A380s,” Clark was quoted as saying by UAE daily Gulf News on Wednesday. He said plans to redeploy Airbus's superjumbo to New York had been pushed back by "at least six months".
Clark said later in the day the delivery setback will impact “one or two” of the 15 A380s the airline was scheduled to receive by June next year.
"We should have had 15 by June 2010 ... we are getting two in December and then the remaining 8 between January and November next year, so one or two are being pushed back,” he told news agency Reuters by telephone.
The A380 has been plagued by delays due to production problems that pushed the plane programme more than two years behind schedule.
Clark said Emirates could buy more aircraft from Airbus and Boeing once the global economy moves out of recession.
"We are looking at it (buying more planes) ... we are making the assessments, but clearly with the growth we have and the profit we made, there is nothing to suggest after the recession we shouldn't move rapidly," he told Reuters.
Emirates posted a 165 percent rise in first half profits earlier this month, driven by lower costs. Revenues, meanwhile, fell 13.5 percent during the period.
Sheikh Ahmed said Emirates expects better revenues in the second half of the year. “It should be a very good year for us," he said.
Nov 11, 2009
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By the way, 150 people attended today in Bratislava. So, cv drop-off. They are waiting for the call now to get invited for the assessment.
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I just have a question ,when i was called for the preliminary interview and the final my status on the application (emirates website)was application under review .I check today and it has changed to recommend for final review.Does anyone knows what does it mean.It has been 9 days now after my final interview.
Good lucky to all those waiting.
I just have a question ,when i was called for the preliminary interview and the final my status on the application (emirates website)was application under review .I check today and it has changed to recommend for final review.Does anyone knows what does it mean.It has been 9 days now after my final interview.
Good lucky to all those waiting.
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Yes i did the final interview still waiting for the call .Good lucky to you and just read through this forum it helped a lot for the both the interview wish you all the best.
Yes i did the final interview still waiting for the call .Good lucky to you and just read through this forum it helped a lot for the both the interview wish you all the best.
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open days info from Bratislava and Milan?!
Anyone made it to the final?!
They seem to be very picky nowadays! My little niece (21) was in Slovakia and she was not called for the assessment... I'm so sad... She's very pretty and lively, speaks fluent English and German, workes abroad (lived in Vienna, Dublin, Düsseldorf) and has some customer service experience - less than 2 years, though, but what can you expect from such a young candidate?!
She said there were around 150 people, some from Hungary, Romania, Check and Poland, even a Korean girl from England! Most of them well prepared and well-groomed, competition was tough. They handed the CVs to the recruiters, had a very quick chat (meaning 1-2 questions, that's all), and their height was checked. She said a lot of the candidates had previous flying experience. (It's not big advantage or disadvantage, I'm just saying. Most of these people were working for low-cost airlines as she mentioned to me.) The recruiters were from the UK.
I can't believe that Emirates gained so much popularity in the last couple of years, even in Eastern-Europe. (Emirates only flies to Moscow, nowhere else in this region, except to Vienna, Austria.) In "my" time, much less people attended in Bratislava, no foreigners beside me and the majority didn't wear business attire and was informed from the press, not the homepage.
I think the first, initial screening is the hardest to pass. You don't really have much chance to "shine"...
They seem to be very picky nowadays! My little niece (21) was in Slovakia and she was not called for the assessment... I'm so sad... She's very pretty and lively, speaks fluent English and German, workes abroad (lived in Vienna, Dublin, Düsseldorf) and has some customer service experience - less than 2 years, though, but what can you expect from such a young candidate?!
She said there were around 150 people, some from Hungary, Romania, Check and Poland, even a Korean girl from England! Most of them well prepared and well-groomed, competition was tough. They handed the CVs to the recruiters, had a very quick chat (meaning 1-2 questions, that's all), and their height was checked. She said a lot of the candidates had previous flying experience. (It's not big advantage or disadvantage, I'm just saying. Most of these people were working for low-cost airlines as she mentioned to me.) The recruiters were from the UK.
I can't believe that Emirates gained so much popularity in the last couple of years, even in Eastern-Europe. (Emirates only flies to Moscow, nowhere else in this region, except to Vienna, Austria.) In "my" time, much less people attended in Bratislava, no foreigners beside me and the majority didn't wear business attire and was informed from the press, not the homepage.
I think the first, initial screening is the hardest to pass. You don't really have much chance to "shine"...
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I just heard that only 12 people were called back for the assessment in Slovakia. Yes, assessment, not the final interview. They cut the group into half after a 40-minute-group discussion.
That's the gossip I read from a German girl, feel free to confirm or deny - I don't know more details and I'm not sure it's true as it is a shockingly small number.
Any news about the OD in Milan?!
That's the gossip I read from a German girl, feel free to confirm or deny - I don't know more details and I'm not sure it's true as it is a shockingly small number.
Any news about the OD in Milan?!
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Only 5 made it to the second round of assessments and 4 of those to the final interview from my assessment day. We were told applicants are not competing against each other, rather that if everyone met the criteria they would employ all of us, since they need so many crew.
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Those were the figures from the open day I went to in NZ. I thought it may be interesting to note they don't always take many applicants.
Are you saying 145 were turned away at the first stage of the Bratislava OD? That is a lot. They do say something like only 2% of applicants to flight attendant jobs make it though, so I guess about 10% made it to the next stage?
Are you saying 145 were turned away at the first stage of the Bratislava OD? That is a lot. They do say something like only 2% of applicants to flight attendant jobs make it though, so I guess about 10% made it to the next stage?
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... They do say something like only 2% of applicants to flight attendant jobs make it though ...
And I've heard of gorgeous, well experienced CC from airlines such as Virgin or BA being turned down early on while a lot of applicants have no experience in travel, hospitality or anything related, arent 100% sure what the job involves, but get through no problems!
I think a lot of it has to come down to "the likability factor" to use one of Simon Cowells favourite phrases haha.
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and sometime ago lots of people were saying about waiting for a 'golden call' or writing about receiving it but since last week nobody did.
Has anyone been called from EK last week ( or this one ? ). Because I've been having contact with at least four 'batches' of people who got to the final interview at the same time as I did ( end of October ) and no one has received any calls since last Monday.
Any news from another part of the globe?
Hope they call soon!
Has anyone been called from EK last week ( or this one ? ). Because I've been having contact with at least four 'batches' of people who got to the final interview at the same time as I did ( end of October ) and no one has received any calls since last Monday.
Any news from another part of the globe?
Hope they call soon!
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my final interview was oct 20th and i am still waiting 
I have read through here and allot of people that are waiting so long to hear back for there answers are unsuccessful people - can anyone else clarify this or is it just random? From what i have read on here, the successful people have been contacted within 2 weeks or so??? any one else have ideas? Did anyone else have there interview around october and have received an answer yet?
I have read through here and allot of people that are waiting so long to hear back for there answers are unsuccessful people - can anyone else clarify this or is it just random? From what i have read on here, the successful people have been contacted within 2 weeks or so??? any one else have ideas? Did anyone else have there interview around october and have received an answer yet?
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There were 3 AD in Argentina in October, from what I know they have contacted 2 out of 12 on the first group, 4 out of 12 on the second and 1 out of 11 on the third group.
Last time they called someone around here was last Monday ( a week ago) but like I said before, no one has said a thing about being called last week here at the forum...so has it been a week without any calls whatsoever? Somehow we are trying to think that EK is re-organizing the training batches for Dec-Jan and that's why they haven't.
Anyway , we are still waiting and have no answer ( not dreadful e-mails nor 'golden calls' ) ...I really hope they call soon.
Last time they called someone around here was last Monday ( a week ago) but like I said before, no one has said a thing about being called last week here at the forum...so has it been a week without any calls whatsoever? Somehow we are trying to think that EK is re-organizing the training batches for Dec-Jan and that's why they haven't.
Anyway , we are still waiting and have no answer ( not dreadful e-mails nor 'golden calls' ) ...I really hope they call soon.