Current Gulf Air issues (threads merged)
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Gulf Air New Sched.
Bah auh GFA321
auh rest of the world EY340.
Bah Dxb GFA321
Dxb rst of world EK380
Bah Doh GFA321
Doh rest of world QR 330
Bah Mct Gf A321
MCT rest of world Oman A330
Bah Amm GFA321
Amm Europe RJ 340.
Thank YOu GF for providing passengers to our New Aircraft.
Already JH benefiting from the GF droppeed routes and EY increasing flights to BAH.
auh rest of the world EY340.
Bah Dxb GFA321
Dxb rst of world EK380
Bah Doh GFA321
Doh rest of world QR 330
Bah Mct Gf A321
MCT rest of world Oman A330
Bah Amm GFA321
Amm Europe RJ 340.
Thank YOu GF for providing passengers to our New Aircraft.
Already JH benefiting from the GF droppeed routes and EY increasing flights to BAH.
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Much has been said and written about Sky Chefs in the past.
I cannot help but wonder whether the Sky Chef concept was in fact a very cleaver (and relatively inexpensive) marketing strategy cooked up (no pun intended) by James Hogan.
A Business or First Class passenger wants to make a reservation and looks at the options. All airlines offer lounges, flat-laying seats, nice meals, and obsequious service. But, oh, look . . . Gulf Air has a Sky Chef! Cool! Booking made.
Admittedly, GF has to work on other areas (modernity and cleanliness of the cabin and punctuality), which André Dosé has pledged to address sooner rather than later. However, and without knowing the full costs, I've always figured that the Sky Chefs are a cost effective way to descriminate our product from the competition.
I cannot help but wonder whether the Sky Chef concept was in fact a very cleaver (and relatively inexpensive) marketing strategy cooked up (no pun intended) by James Hogan.
A Business or First Class passenger wants to make a reservation and looks at the options. All airlines offer lounges, flat-laying seats, nice meals, and obsequious service. But, oh, look . . . Gulf Air has a Sky Chef! Cool! Booking made.
Admittedly, GF has to work on other areas (modernity and cleanliness of the cabin and punctuality), which André Dosé has pledged to address sooner rather than later. However, and without knowing the full costs, I've always figured that the Sky Chefs are a cost effective way to descriminate our product from the competition.
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C'mon guys, let's chill out a little bit here and start phocusing on what's really important at this very moment. I'd like to act as the Devil's advocate if you allow me on behalf of the sky chefs. First of all, this guys are not the ones to blame since there were offered this job for a decent salary and they TOOK it as we all would have done it in their cases, wouldn't we?. Second of all, the problem there is not if they are making 1800 or 2000 BD a month, the problem is that the rest of the hard working cabin crew members (specially the bahrainis) are making almost nothing for their work and that's the real problem; nothing will be fix sacking this sky chefs. I really think that what makes you successful in this aviation business among other things is to offer a state of the art service and here is where QR,EY,and EK are light years away from us: immaculate cabins, punctuality, excellent connections worldwide (including code sharing of course). We can't still thinking as pilots only, we have to try to get in the passengers/clients or customers pants as you prefer and think what THEY WANT. As someboby wrote in this thread before, the characteristics of our customers are quite different in this part of the world and think that what they want (among other thing again) is premium service and quality; guess this includes the skychefs even if they are only there to heat up the meals in the ovens but for sure the our customers will be very satisfied despite most of this guys are not Bocusse or Adrian Ferrá.
Nevertheless, i'm pretty sure GF is laughing out loud seeing how we critizise and fight between each other instead of getting together and fight for what we want (I mean get together the whole crew memebers including F/A's, Skychefs, S/N's, Pilots,etc). At the end, without our help no money is produced so believe me guys, THEY NEED THE CREWMEMBERS TO KEEP GOING AND MAKE SOME MONEY.
Any way, based on the history, it's easier to get 20 monkeys together and keep them steady for a picture rather than getting a couple of crewmembers together with an agreement. Our big ego is gonna kill us dudes.
No hard feeling and cheers mates!
Nevertheless, i'm pretty sure GF is laughing out loud seeing how we critizise and fight between each other instead of getting together and fight for what we want (I mean get together the whole crew memebers including F/A's, Skychefs, S/N's, Pilots,etc). At the end, without our help no money is produced so believe me guys, THEY NEED THE CREWMEMBERS TO KEEP GOING AND MAKE SOME MONEY.
Any way, based on the history, it's easier to get 20 monkeys together and keep them steady for a picture rather than getting a couple of crewmembers together with an agreement. Our big ego is gonna kill us dudes.
No hard feeling and cheers mates!
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2 more Bahraini A320 Capt's resigned a few days ago with plenty more to follow if the new boys decide to transfer B767 junior Capt's to the A330/340 out of sequence. I know that a lot of the guys have said that that will be the final straw & the will just quit & head to 1 of the many options next door. But I really hope they don't force the guys to do it since in the end the company would be losing long term Captains.
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Yes, it's official: THE BAN HAS BEEN LIFTED FOR GF IN ETIHAD. Guys, don't be the last to upload the CV. Availability of seats are limited though. Good luck GF, and see you in Abu Dhabi.
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HAHA
Its amazing to see people .talking about the guud things this guy is doing and now off to EY..Hey GUYS JH and RH the people you have been complaining about are there.It seems it was all sour grapes.
LEts all agree JH did a gud job .he is doing a gud job in EY and a lot of guys here will follow HIm.
Take care JH some back stabbers might be on your doorstep.
The only gud thing Gf crew should do is do a Union for Flight and Cabin crew and Chefs and Fight for the proper cause.
LEts all agree JH did a gud job .he is doing a gud job in EY and a lot of guys here will follow HIm.
Take care JH some back stabbers might be on your doorstep.
The only gud thing Gf crew should do is do a Union for Flight and Cabin crew and Chefs and Fight for the proper cause.
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Guys check out EY Flight Deck Vacancy page...100 command positions and 300 F/O................GF however wonderful it was..not end of the road I guess...some of you gotta stop thinking with your hearts and start thinking with your heads and pockets.................
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EY CAPT PAKAGE
Starting salary of AED 33000 or US$ 8965 per month for Captains and an annual salary increment of AED 700 per month.
Flight duty allowance of AED 50 per flying hour.
Meal allowance during layovers as per the following rates:
-Middle east/ GCC/ Sub continent AED 12 per hour
-Asia/ Far East AED 15 per hour
-Africa/ Australasia AED 18 per hour
-Europe/ Americas AED 23 per hour
Benefits
Housing allowances up to AED 120000.
(Or)
Company provided housing depending on availability.
(Or)
The opportunity to take advantage of our innovative "Rent to Buy" house purchase programme.
Education assistance of AED 25000 for primary and AED 35000 for secondary up to 4 children from the ages of 4 up to 19 years old.
F/O pakage
:Starting salary of AED 24500 or US$ 6655 per month for First officers and an annual salary increment of AED 500 per month.
Flight duty allowance of AED 40 per flying hour.
Meal allowance during layovers as per the following rates:
-Middle East/ GCC/ Sub Continent AED 12 per hour
-Asia/ Far East AED 15 per hour
-Africa/ Australasia AED 18 per hour
-Europe/ Americas AED 23 per hour
Benefits:
Housing allowance up to AED 115000 per year.
(Or)
Company provided housing depending on availability.
(Or)
The opportunity to take advantage of our innovative "Rent to Buy" house purchase programme.
Education allowance of AED 25000 for primary and AED 35000 for secondary up to 4 children from the ages of 4 up to 19 years old.
42 Days annual leave.
Staff travel benefits.
End of service benefits.
Accidental and life insurance benefits.
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This out in confirmation on Speednews today -
Gulf Air this week revealed BD310m (US$825m) "Get Well" Programme to turn the company around. The plan consists of two pillars, requiring investment in aircraft and ground facilities, to completely reshape the network to better serve the needs of the Bahrain and Oman economies and, to improve customer service through higher punctuality, better reliability and lower connection times. Gulf Air says that the airline's operation was currently losing more than US$1m per day, and including other costs such as financing 'the figure would even be substantially higher.' Accumulated losses and costs, including 2007, would amount to BD254m (US$675m).
Under the first part of the program that will cost BD120m (US$319m), Gulf Air will undergo a major restructuring of its operations. The focus is on closing the airline's current profitability gap of BD156m (US$414m), creating a network that serves better the needs of the Bahrain and Oman business community and, increasing Gulf Air's customer service level. To achieve its financial and operational goals, Gulf Air will downsize its fleet from 34 to 28 aircraft by removing nine 767s and nine A340s, and adding eight A330s and four A321s; it also has six A330-200s and 10 A320s. It will operate an all-Airbus fleet. It is expected to take until the beginning of 2009 to complete the fleet replacement and restructuring program.
The second pillar of Gulf Air's "get well" program consists of investments of BD190m (US$505m) to improve the quality of its product on the ground and in the air. The airline intends to refurbish the cabins of its existing Airbus aircraft. In addition, ground facilities, such as lounges, will be upgraded. Parallel to the downsizing of its fleet by roughly 25 per cent, Gulf Air's workforce will have to be reduced, also. Currently, the airline has nearly 6,000 employees. The exact number of jobs that will be cut as a result of the downsizing and restructuring of the company still has to be defined. A portion of the downsizing of the workforce will occur through natural attrition.
Under the first part of the program that will cost BD120m (US$319m), Gulf Air will undergo a major restructuring of its operations. The focus is on closing the airline's current profitability gap of BD156m (US$414m), creating a network that serves better the needs of the Bahrain and Oman business community and, increasing Gulf Air's customer service level. To achieve its financial and operational goals, Gulf Air will downsize its fleet from 34 to 28 aircraft by removing nine 767s and nine A340s, and adding eight A330s and four A321s; it also has six A330-200s and 10 A320s. It will operate an all-Airbus fleet. It is expected to take until the beginning of 2009 to complete the fleet replacement and restructuring program.
The second pillar of Gulf Air's "get well" program consists of investments of BD190m (US$505m) to improve the quality of its product on the ground and in the air. The airline intends to refurbish the cabins of its existing Airbus aircraft. In addition, ground facilities, such as lounges, will be upgraded. Parallel to the downsizing of its fleet by roughly 25 per cent, Gulf Air's workforce will have to be reduced, also. Currently, the airline has nearly 6,000 employees. The exact number of jobs that will be cut as a result of the downsizing and restructuring of the company still has to be defined. A portion of the downsizing of the workforce will occur through natural attrition.
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EY Salary
Is it really worth the hussle to move from GF to EY??
If you really want to prosper look at Asia Good money cheaper cost of Living.
Cheapest property in Auh around 2500000 DHS for a Villa.u need minimum 20years to pay that with rent to buy.How many GF capts have 20 years more in this career??
Fo Salary bit better than GF but cost of living in UAE lot more than BAH.
INDIA crying for your experience guys.
If you really want to prosper look at Asia Good money cheaper cost of Living.
Cheapest property in Auh around 2500000 DHS for a Villa.u need minimum 20years to pay that with rent to buy.How many GF capts have 20 years more in this career??
Fo Salary bit better than GF but cost of living in UAE lot more than BAH.
INDIA crying for your experience guys.