DHL at LEJ
 

Anything about last assessment for DHL early this month?

Regards

Do you mean EAT or DHL Air UK??

It is DHL Air based in Leipzig. For 757s...

Sorry to thread creep. Received an email today from HR at DHL advising me that if I wanted to apply for a position on the 757 fleet, I now have to go through an Agency rather than DHL direct. Is this an attempt by management to split the pilot group now that DHL has BALPA recognition?

DHL gateaway
 

Is Anybody aware about any possible gateaway other than BGY in Italy?

Thanks to anyone giving info....

If its for the LHS, I think BALPA may have put the stoppers on DEC. If its for RHS, not sure, but I'm sure rumors will be flying around soon.

With regards to Italy, BGY is the easier gateway if you are jump seating, as there are plenty of flights. DHL do operate from AOI & PSA to BGY. I think CIA, BLQ & TSF are to LEJ, but don't quote me.

Thank you kuchemann,as far as understand you are on the job with DHL.
If you don't mind could you tel me how lifestyle is in DHL?

Lifestyle varies somewhat on who you speak to. Since last early last winter we have been under crewed, leading to an unsustainable roster, both for the company, and the pilots in terms of fatigue etc. However, the crew numbers are being increased, and BALPA have been formally recognised!

Overall, its night freight. Trips vary between 2-7(ish) days away from home. Nights from 2-10 (ish) hours duty, 1-3 sectors (normally) with lots of sitting around.

What you need, and we havent been getting recently is time to recover at home. Quite a few on 8 off in 28. If you're planning on commuting to LEJ, it takes it toll. Not sure how the contracts work, but if its guaranteed jump seats, this will take a lot of stress off, and hopefully provide more time at home.

Not the best, far off the worst, and could quite easily be one of the better jobs.

Good evening!

As I understand you are only talking about DHL UK above???
Any EAT pilots able to shed some light on their lifestyle regarding roster, network, pay, hotels downroute etc. please?! Or is it all the same compared to DHL UK??
Is there also recruitment forseeable at EAT in the near future?? Do all BRU based pilots keep their base and shuttle to LEJ now?
Couldn't find too much about EAT, mostly DHK in the freight dogs forum.
Thanks for your help!!

Best regards

Yup, that was for DHL UK. Can't comment on EAT too much, apart from they have a block roster (7on 7 off I think)

No EAT pilot in the forum who is willing to answer?? Come on guys, please....!!!

Come on then, but I only can give you an impression from the A300 fleet. We work under ACL but still contracted by EAT Belgium. We work indeed some kind of 7/7, sometimes 8/6. As a Bru based crew member ACL is positioning us to and from Lej on last Off day/first Off day with a rest day somewhere in between(most off the time in Lej in the weekend) so you are not going over the 7 days consecutive duty. If you are lucky everything is within your 7 days duty. The roster is quite stable but we don't fly a lot. We hear already months rumors about more flights for the A300 but there it stops. One Fo who was dismissed last year by EAT is hired back by ACL directly Lej based.
At the moment we still have our Bru base but personally I think it is a matter of time (1 year, 2 years???). Although we know already that every upgrade, type change etc. will be Lej based.

Regards

Thanks for your answer CaravanDriver!
Are there still newhires on the A300 Fleet as well or are all newbies supposed to go on the 757?? Or any new hires at all? Are there plans to replace the A300s with a "newer" type?
And finally, are your hotels downtown when enroute?
Questions over questions...

rgds

As far as I know there is no hiring.
Hotels are the same for the whole DHL network (EAT,ACL, DHK). Sometimes ate the airport sometimes downtown, it depends. Most of the hotels are very good.
The replacement of the A300 will come, but we don't know when and what type.


Regards

I heard a rumour last week (this is Pprune after all) that more 767s are coming, but they may be to replace some of the high time 757s.

Also that a product support deal has been agreed with Airbus until 2018.

Also that new hires with DHL UK are only being offered 12 month contracts. Is this so that after 1 year a German contract will be offered with EAT Gmbh.?

Only rumours!

These first officers who have been hired recently by Contractair. Can anybody tell me how much experience they have?

dixi188, the additional 76s are the final three new ones of the original order for 6 that were deferred until 2011/2.

Are the routes flown by the A300's increasing? Is Tel Aviv back on the Airbus? Is it a busy workweek for the A300 crews?

Thanks in advance,

Not much moving on the Airbus. No new routes whatsoever.(My guess maybe for the winter schedule...) Mind you as well that the guy they rehired was solely to replace a leaving one. And probably same will happen soon. But they still have a couple of guys sitting at home who got dismissed last year...

Phase out of the A300 is probably end 2012 but as we all know, things tend to change in aviation. The brand new 767's coming (3) have nothing to do with that.

My impression is that the atmosphere on the A300 is not so great at the moment. As there is a real lack of information what will happen once they start the phase out.

Work week on the airbus is fairly busy, however the Lej based one's tend to fly a little bit less compared to the bru based ones. Generally speaking min 10 to max 20-ish sectors per 7 days. Ofcourse everybody has to do his share of standby weeks aswell.

Fixed pay is at eat a bit less (due to belgian taxes) than dhk, but perdiems/flight pay (whatever you want to call it) is more. However I've heard stories that starting pay at dhk is not so good, but I do not know if there is any truth to that.

Then ofcourse there are the rumours about the two companies merging one day or another. But can't see that happening to soon...

Plenty of rumours around ;-)

Why the change in AC specs for DHL UK. Heavy Turbo Prop over 40000KG ?? So no prop guys then in DHL UK......