Who's gonna fly you home?
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Who's gonna fly you home?
Interesting article in todays 7Days paper here in Dubai, It says:
"The Middle East's airlines need to find up to 4,000 trained pilots over the next ten years, if they are to keep their fleets in the air"
As we all know it's becoming more and more difficult to find good pilots who are willing to "up sticks" and move to Dubai, especially with terms and conditions getting worse and not better.
Lufthansa flight training and Flight Star are proposing a plan to reduce pilot training time down to 18 months in order to get pilots into the system and help the shortfall, (Oh ye and save $136,000 per cadet) you have to ask the question, what will the standard be like then? some of the pilots coming through the system now are bad enough, so what will the experience level be like when they really get desperate?
All of this will "hopefully" lead to one good outcome, a rise in terms and conditions that will attract the right person, provide a professional pilot with a professional salary which reflects the job we do and the very expensive place we live.
Safe and happy flying to all.
"The Middle East's airlines need to find up to 4,000 trained pilots over the next ten years, if they are to keep their fleets in the air"
As we all know it's becoming more and more difficult to find good pilots who are willing to "up sticks" and move to Dubai, especially with terms and conditions getting worse and not better.
Lufthansa flight training and Flight Star are proposing a plan to reduce pilot training time down to 18 months in order to get pilots into the system and help the shortfall, (Oh ye and save $136,000 per cadet) you have to ask the question, what will the standard be like then? some of the pilots coming through the system now are bad enough, so what will the experience level be like when they really get desperate?
All of this will "hopefully" lead to one good outcome, a rise in terms and conditions that will attract the right person, provide a professional pilot with a professional salary which reflects the job we do and the very expensive place we live.
Safe and happy flying to all.
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Well well well...are they finally waking up then?
4000 professional experienced pilots here, over 15000 in China and god knows how many more in Europe and eventually the states as well!
And guess what, the ME wont be the first choice thanks to that incredible
mentality here...
The future is ours boys.....Life can only get better!
10000++USD salaries as a standard....
4000 professional experienced pilots here, over 15000 in China and god knows how many more in Europe and eventually the states as well!
And guess what, the ME wont be the first choice thanks to that incredible
mentality here...The future is ours boys.....Life can only get better!
10000++USD salaries as a standard....
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You could be a bit premmie here with the good thoughts boys. Aren't they still about to kick families out of their EK provided homes because the rent went up by AED1000 per month? Have some new joiners been stuck in temporary accommodation for months because there is not enough cheap Villas left to house them?
The comapny would rather throw money at sporting clubs than spend on crewing issues. There is still alot of sand left in which they can burry their heads.
Lets just hope you guys are right.
The comapny would rather throw money at sporting clubs than spend on crewing issues. There is still alot of sand left in which they can burry their heads.
Lets just hope you guys are right.
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Before you get too many dollar signs in your eyes chaps, look back at the core message in the article on how airlines plan to fix the looming problem
Blind Freddie could tell you that this will be their answer - dumb down training more and more so they can fill the seats with systems operators, automate everything possible and insist everyone operate to the lowest common denominator.
Bottom line Economics 101 shows them that they can 'afford' to lose a hull every 'n' years and still save money by spending only 'n minus z' dollars on the lesser training (and lower wages) rather than 'n plus y' on higher training standards (and higher wages and conditions).
...proposing a plan to reduce pilot training time down...
Bottom line Economics 101 shows them that they can 'afford' to lose a hull every 'n' years and still save money by spending only 'n minus z' dollars on the lesser training (and lower wages) rather than 'n plus y' on higher training standards (and higher wages and conditions).
