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Old 1st Mar 2012, 13:20
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Mickey and welco are hitting the nail on the head. Sad but at this point anyone with the experience to move to EK will probably move if they are not close to their retirement. Even if we pull our socks up and stabilize it is only a matter of time before most EXpats move on the a stable airline/country/roster. We all sound like broken records, as a very experienced capt pnce told me. GF is simple.....it continues to do the same thing for past 25 years and wonders why nothing changes!
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Old 1st Mar 2012, 18:25
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the reason why it's called long term vision at GF is because ...... the size of the nose
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Old 3rd Mar 2012, 04:54
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Heard mumtalakat and everything it owns has changed hands
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Old 3rd Mar 2012, 05:48
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So buba, who owns it now?
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Old 3rd Mar 2012, 11:51
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The big kahuna.. The man whose face is on every badge worn around town. Sorry for the code dont wanna drag this into a political debate..
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Old 3rd Mar 2012, 14:11
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Wow, so in this case who owned it before?????
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Old 3rd Mar 2012, 15:42
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It doesnot matters whats happening with gulf air all it matters is that things will change losing 7 instructors pilot to EK ETIHAD and Qatar
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Old 4th Mar 2012, 06:42
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@showel...another big kahuna.. The number 2 man.
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Old 6th Mar 2012, 16:29
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welcome to guf air, bye bye gulf air?

hallo everyone
i was supposed to join gulf air on the 6th of february but as i was packing my things i received an email stating that all direct entry pilots have been put on hold until further notice. The thing is that i had already resighned from my previous company and iam currently with no job . Does anyone knows something about this development?
No email from gulf air since that day.
Thank you.
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Old 7th Mar 2012, 10:41
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theodoremd83, this is the Gulf Air's way of management, must issues are dealt via e-mail at the very last minute.
As said, in different words, in the last management's e-mail: ... we don't know what is going on and we also don't know what is going to happen with Gulf Air... so, please keep believing on us..."

Hope you get your job back or in a different airline in the ME...

Sad, but true.
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Old 7th Mar 2012, 13:47
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SO. True. Makes me giggle how they always wing about how pilots leave and so on.....WAKE up look in the mirror boys. Md83 is a person with bills a mortgage a family kids etc. For some reason GF has always been able to put there head in the sand when it comes to issues they screw u on.

NAS is a great guy but reading that email i started giggling. Why say anything at all? I mean if u don't want us to listen to rumours then don't produce an official letter that is ambiguous and tell us later u may be fXXOOed
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Old 8th Mar 2012, 06:00
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Salami's email was nothing short of a confirmation that things are worse than bad at GF. I can bet you he already has he next job in Oman Air lined up. GF mis-management has now surpassed the level of "legendary" & they think a few words begging for "patience" will stem the brain drain? Get ready for the rush for the exits, but please give priority for managment to leave first. What really impresses me is the level of arrogance/ignorance shown by the COO that he thinks his sparce kind words will stop people leaving.
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Old 8th Mar 2012, 08:22
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Salami's email was nothing short of a confirmation that things are worse than bad at GF
Lots of people realized this for quite a while but they kept ignoring the facts and lived in complete denial. Now they tacitly continue doing their work and hoping it's not their last day.. or sometimes they hope it is!


What really impresses me is the level of arrogance/ignorance shown by the COO that he thinks his sparse kind words will stop people leaving.
Did GF ever fail to impress?!
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Old 8th Mar 2012, 09:11
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Thank you guys for the feed back, just one question since i already have a signed contract with GF on my hands together with the working visa they ve send me would it be possible to go against them in the courts of law and win this one or it would be a tottaly waste of time and money?
Do you know of similar cases and what was the outcome?
Thank you very much for helping me to short this one out.
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Old 8th Mar 2012, 09:33
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Forget it, this is a different world!

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Old 8th Mar 2012, 22:04
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It will put in a drawer and if u live 10,000 years it MAY go to court
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Old 9th Mar 2012, 11:46
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Copy that thanks guys.
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Old 12th Mar 2012, 10:01
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Seen the ads on the way to work.. 11 flights a week to fra, 10 to cdg, 56 to dxb. The ground staff at cdg says fra and cdg will be served by the new sleeper 321.
Heard kul might remain with schedule increase.
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Old 12th Mar 2012, 12:19
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Indeed. But will they actually be on 321 or on new 320's. Looking at the destination list for the 321's both FRA and CDG are not on there. This was previously published...

On a side note, by Jun/Jul FRA and CDG routes will be increased from 7xw to 11xw and 10xw......on board A320 iso A332.

In this way only LHR gets GF's widebody in Europe since CDG (A320), FCO (A320), FRA (A320), LCA (A319/E90), CPH (B737), IST (A319) will be served with narrow.

When is the first 321 to arrive? Noticed some pix from XFW dating mid FEB.
So will they be getting some 320's with sleeper config soon, or how are they gonna do it?

P.S. How many DXB flight are there currently to DXB per week? Are they increasing again?
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Old 12th Mar 2012, 12:36
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321 are meant to show up this month. Dubai usually has anywhere between 6 to 7 flights depending on the day off the week. Thats all about i heard.
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