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Iran
We're off to Iran people!
flydubai announces plans to launch first Iran flights - Transport - ArabianBusiness.com
It was only a matter of time. Im actually surprised it took this long. Seeing as we fly over it so much. Given the number of Iranians in the UAE, should be good business too.
flydubai announces plans to launch first Iran flights - Transport - ArabianBusiness.com
It was only a matter of time. Im actually surprised it took this long. Seeing as we fly over it so much. Given the number of Iranians in the UAE, should be good business too.
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Kigali, Rwanda, might be announced soon.
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According to Masozera, more airlines have expressed interest in operating flights to and from of Kigali, including Fly Dubai, a low-cost airline expected to start its flights soon.
Kigali is only a few miles short of our longest sector, Zagreb, so expect this to be a day return too.
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According to Masozera, more airlines have expressed interest in operating flights to and from of Kigali, including Fly Dubai, a low-cost airline expected to start its flights soon.
Kigali is only a few miles short of our longest sector, Zagreb, so expect this to be a day return too.
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Nope, I passed the assessment in Southampton. The sim (2nd day) was on a Friday morning, got the good news Friday evening through the CTC website, and Flydubai sent me an email (for the final interview in DXB) the following Sunday (or Monday, can't remember).
But if you didn't do the selection in the UK, then the process is probably different...
Just so you know, it took them 2 weeks to get back to me after the final interview in DXB.
But if you didn't do the selection in the UK, then the process is probably different...
Just so you know, it took them 2 weeks to get back to me after the final interview in DXB.
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any non rated FO applicants for the New Zealand assessments get an email to say come over for an interview? Just wondering what sort of experience they are looking for and if I am actually competitive and when they are doing the assessments. cheers
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Hi guys, can anyone explain what it is currently like to work for Flydubai?
what are the staff travel options for travelling back to the EU. And is there a limit id staff travel is available? Also what is the roster like? I'm a 738 rated pilot! Many thanks
what are the staff travel options for travelling back to the EU. And is there a limit id staff travel is available? Also what is the roster like? I'm a 738 rated pilot! Many thanks
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All of that information is here in the thread. Just read back and do your homework. All 132 pages of it.
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Hi 10,
If you can get past not being able to find a place to park your car when you get to the airport, it's not too bad here overall!
Seriously though, it's a job where you can show up, fly, and if you don't screw up, just go home and enjoy your life. Management does not make a point of bothering pilots on their days off like other carriers in the ME.
Staff travel is avail after 6 months on the job. Options are limited to only flydubai and EK. EK you can buy standby business, standby Econ, and firm Econ. The standby tickets are priced like ZED tickets, priced by zones. Firm Econ is more like an ID50.
Rosters at flydubai are awarded by seniority through a PBS bidding system. At the current rate of hiring, you will fly the leftover crap (mostly nights, conflict areas, and double sectors)your first six months here and then the roster will get much better over the following 12 months. Its not to say you won't have any day flights, but when you bid you will have to make some decisions on where or when you would prefer to fly. Usually after about 18 months you start thinking about applying for the command program, however if your roster is something you enjoy some have started delaying command. One thing to highlight with FZs seniority system is that once you are hired that is your position on the master seniority list. Any DEC hired after you will always be junior to you once you become a Captain.
Those are the highlights, read through previous posts for more detail.
If you can get past not being able to find a place to park your car when you get to the airport, it's not too bad here overall!
Seriously though, it's a job where you can show up, fly, and if you don't screw up, just go home and enjoy your life. Management does not make a point of bothering pilots on their days off like other carriers in the ME.
Staff travel is avail after 6 months on the job. Options are limited to only flydubai and EK. EK you can buy standby business, standby Econ, and firm Econ. The standby tickets are priced like ZED tickets, priced by zones. Firm Econ is more like an ID50.
Rosters at flydubai are awarded by seniority through a PBS bidding system. At the current rate of hiring, you will fly the leftover crap (mostly nights, conflict areas, and double sectors)your first six months here and then the roster will get much better over the following 12 months. Its not to say you won't have any day flights, but when you bid you will have to make some decisions on where or when you would prefer to fly. Usually after about 18 months you start thinking about applying for the command program, however if your roster is something you enjoy some have started delaying command. One thing to highlight with FZs seniority system is that once you are hired that is your position on the master seniority list. Any DEC hired after you will always be junior to you once you become a Captain.
Those are the highlights, read through previous posts for more detail.
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Staff travel is avail after 6 months on the job. Options are limited to only flydubai and EK. EK you can buy standby business, standby Econ, and firm Econ. The standby tickets are priced like ZED tickets, priced by zones. Firm Econ is more like an ID50.
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Hi dream,
As stupefying as this sounds, there are different levels of "firm" economy as was explained by someone at staff travel FZ. I'm probably going to repeat this incorrectly but here is what I remember. If you book at the right time, you can actually purchase a firm seat at an ID 50 price on EK. This is what most of us think of as a firm seat, meaning it's your seat and you will be on that flight. If that category of seat is fully booked or not available (usually the case
), then you travel at a lower status of "firm" seat, meaning a higher priority than standby economy, but still wait listed. If someone knows better please chime in, however I just buy firm tickets 90% of the time I travel as I don't want to be bothered any more with the waiting for the last seat and then running from the staff travel office at T3 to the last gate in the A concourse 
As you suggested though, EK staff will find ways to help other EK staff before they even consider putting an FZ employee on the plane
As stupefying as this sounds, there are different levels of "firm" economy as was explained by someone at staff travel FZ. I'm probably going to repeat this incorrectly but here is what I remember. If you book at the right time, you can actually purchase a firm seat at an ID 50 price on EK. This is what most of us think of as a firm seat, meaning it's your seat and you will be on that flight. If that category of seat is fully booked or not available (usually the case
), then you travel at a lower status of "firm" seat, meaning a higher priority than standby economy, but still wait listed. If someone knows better please chime in, however I just buy firm tickets 90% of the time I travel as I don't want to be bothered any more with the waiting for the last seat and then running from the staff travel office at T3 to the last gate in the A concourse As you suggested though, EK staff will find ways to help other EK staff before they even consider putting an FZ employee on the plane
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FD Uganda Bound??
The first indication of Fly Dubai eyeing flights to Uganda came to light when Air Uganda’s Travel Centre changed hands, reportedly with a little help from a senior member of the Air Uganda board, itself an interesting pointer to the future of U7, or rather the non-future considering that their prime sales premises are now gone. There is added speculation from sources at Entebbe International Airport that at least some of Air Uganda’s airport offices might also go to Fly Dubai, affirming earlier mention of this possibility in one of the articles written over the past weeks about Air Uganda’s gutting by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, which is notably also the main manager of the airport.
Fly Dubai, one of the Gulf’s leading low cost carriers, has in the recent past relatively slowly advanced into Africa and travelers from Uganda will no doubt take immediate advantage of their very low fares, giving the other full service Gulf carriers like Emirates and Qatar Airways a run for their money.
While owned by the government of Dubai is the airline notably not part of the Emirates Group but a standalone business enterprise. Launched in 2008 and commencing flights in mid 2009 with a single B737-800NG has the fleet now grown to 38 aircraft, with large orders still pending, and flies to 68 destinations. Late last year was Fly Dubai among the first LCC’s to introduce a dedicated business class cabin to cater for a growing number of frequent flyers who had asked for better comfort levels on the airline’s flights. A preview into the future of Fly Dubai should be possible by looking at their order placed with Boeing during last November’s Dubai Air Show when the carrier signed for up to 100 next generation B737MAX as well as a further 11 B737-800NG’s.
Fly Dubai, with IATA two letter code of FZ and their callsign Sky Dubai, presently already serves Africa with flights to Addis Ababa, to Juba, to Khartoum and Port Sudan apart from several destinations in Egypt but it was long expected that a further rollout into the lucrative East African travel market was only a matter of time, on one side depending on new aircraft deliveries where the airline flies a uniform fleet of B737-800NG’s and on the other depending on the projections of market shares and passenger numbers, considering that rival Air Arabia already flies daily to Nairobi.
While other airline were understandably reluctant to discuss the arrival of yet another competitor, so were individuals thought to be joining Fly Dubai at Entebbe and in their town office, perhaps trying to prevent the jumpstart of telling the news ahead of Fly Dubai’s own PR and Corporate Communications Department being able to tell their story. Well, now that everyone reading this will know it will only be a matter of time before the airline will issue an official statement and confirm the number of flights, arrival and departure times and most importantly their launch fares.
Fly Dubai, one of the Gulf’s leading low cost carriers, has in the recent past relatively slowly advanced into Africa and travelers from Uganda will no doubt take immediate advantage of their very low fares, giving the other full service Gulf carriers like Emirates and Qatar Airways a run for their money.
While owned by the government of Dubai is the airline notably not part of the Emirates Group but a standalone business enterprise. Launched in 2008 and commencing flights in mid 2009 with a single B737-800NG has the fleet now grown to 38 aircraft, with large orders still pending, and flies to 68 destinations. Late last year was Fly Dubai among the first LCC’s to introduce a dedicated business class cabin to cater for a growing number of frequent flyers who had asked for better comfort levels on the airline’s flights. A preview into the future of Fly Dubai should be possible by looking at their order placed with Boeing during last November’s Dubai Air Show when the carrier signed for up to 100 next generation B737MAX as well as a further 11 B737-800NG’s.
Fly Dubai, with IATA two letter code of FZ and their callsign Sky Dubai, presently already serves Africa with flights to Addis Ababa, to Juba, to Khartoum and Port Sudan apart from several destinations in Egypt but it was long expected that a further rollout into the lucrative East African travel market was only a matter of time, on one side depending on new aircraft deliveries where the airline flies a uniform fleet of B737-800NG’s and on the other depending on the projections of market shares and passenger numbers, considering that rival Air Arabia already flies daily to Nairobi.
While other airline were understandably reluctant to discuss the arrival of yet another competitor, so were individuals thought to be joining Fly Dubai at Entebbe and in their town office, perhaps trying to prevent the jumpstart of telling the news ahead of Fly Dubai’s own PR and Corporate Communications Department being able to tell their story. Well, now that everyone reading this will know it will only be a matter of time before the airline will issue an official statement and confirm the number of flights, arrival and departure times and most importantly their launch fares.
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That didn't take long.
3 New East Africa destinations. With the launch of fights in September 2014 to Bujumbura in Burundi, Entebbe in Uganda and Kigali in Rwanda, Surprised Nairobi isn't one of them.
Bujumbura and Kigali will be served through Entebbe. That is for sure a new nightstop destination.
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On a sidenote, late SEP also shows a overnight return to Goa. (2255-0815) Although it's a 4 digit flightnumber so might only be a few flights iso scheduled.
3 New East Africa destinations. With the launch of fights in September 2014 to Bujumbura in Burundi, Entebbe in Uganda and Kigali in Rwanda, Surprised Nairobi isn't one of them.
Bujumbura and Kigali will be served through Entebbe. That is for sure a new nightstop destination.
Link
On a sidenote, late SEP also shows a overnight return to Goa. (2255-0815) Although it's a 4 digit flightnumber so might only be a few flights iso scheduled.
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Do you have a problem with the desert destination ?
On top of that if you take a second to look at all the FZ destinations on their website you will see that they have already plenty of non desert destinations.
As far as I know Belgrade , Istanbul , Skopje , Addis Ababa , Almaty , Ashgabat , Baku , Bishkek , Bucharest , Colombo , Chittagong , Dushanbe , Hyderabad , Juba , Kathmandu , Kazan , Kharkiv , Kiev , Kochi , Krasnodar , Lucknow , Male , Mattala , Mineralnye , Odessa , Osh , Rostov on Don , Samara , Sarajevo , Shymkent , Tbilisi , Ufa , Volgograd , Yekaterinburg , Yerevan , Zagreb etc... are not really desert destination
On top of that if you take a second to look at all the FZ destinations on their website you will see that they have already plenty of non desert destinations.
As far as I know Belgrade , Istanbul , Skopje , Addis Ababa , Almaty , Ashgabat , Baku , Bishkek , Bucharest , Colombo , Chittagong , Dushanbe , Hyderabad , Juba , Kathmandu , Kazan , Kharkiv , Kiev , Kochi , Krasnodar , Lucknow , Male , Mattala , Mineralnye , Odessa , Osh , Rostov on Don , Samara , Sarajevo , Shymkent , Tbilisi , Ufa , Volgograd , Yekaterinburg , Yerevan , Zagreb etc... are not really desert destination
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I don't see how mentioning frequent 'desert destinations' in any way implies that there is an issue.
Furthermore, Flydubai does actually have frequent flights to destinations considered to be in the 'desert'.
I really don't think the post in any way implies that Flydubai doesn't have any destinations outside of the GCC. It's just a very simple statement, which to be fair, is quite accurate.
Furthermore, Flydubai does actually have frequent flights to destinations considered to be in the 'desert'.
I really don't think the post in any way implies that Flydubai doesn't have any destinations outside of the GCC. It's just a very simple statement, which to be fair, is quite accurate.