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From: Dubai
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From: ME
I keep reading and hearing EK is desperate for pilots, and I have 1700 hrs on a narrow body jet that has MTOW more than 50T, and they replied to me with please contact us when you have a 2000 hrs...
dont believe everything you see or hear.
dont believe everything you see or hear.
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From: ME
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From: Escaped the sandpit 53° 32′ 9.19″ N, 9° 50′ 13.29″ E
EK lowered the bar already drastically for direct entry candidates. Don't think that another reduction would make much sense.
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I went to an EK rd show last year. The salary has not changed . They said then that the basic was AED 42xxx. Its not a basic n they admitted it but was based on ~ 90 hrs / month . I mean wtf.
if you factor in the cash housing allowance , for a skipper, then you have the AED 59xxx they are now saying again is your salary. Well its clearly not.
Unless you can bring us$ 500000 to buy a place , then the 190000/ year housing perk is pretty useless as theres no way you can jump into that kind of investment on you first month. And when I inquired , the recruitment dept said you pretty much had to decide on arrival which housing option you require.
For some it would work but to including it in to the salary figure is misleading , and no doubt indicates how desperate they are to cover up the woefully inadequate "basic" salary actually on offer.
Oh and hey Emirates, the rest of the world are not paying peanuts and your tax free status no longer is the draw it once was . China is paying much higher and effectively is tax free . But then its china😂
if you factor in the cash housing allowance , for a skipper, then you have the AED 59xxx they are now saying again is your salary. Well its clearly not.
Unless you can bring us$ 500000 to buy a place , then the 190000/ year housing perk is pretty useless as theres no way you can jump into that kind of investment on you first month. And when I inquired , the recruitment dept said you pretty much had to decide on arrival which housing option you require.
For some it would work but to including it in to the salary figure is misleading , and no doubt indicates how desperate they are to cover up the woefully inadequate "basic" salary actually on offer.
Oh and hey Emirates, the rest of the world are not paying peanuts and your tax free status no longer is the draw it once was . China is paying much higher and effectively is tax free . But then its china😂
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From: UK
Wow. So you have so much loyalty for your first employer. What are your plans after 2 years in the gulf? 😎
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From: Midlands
You'll easily get 2000 hours in 2 years once you join 👍
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From: Sweden
Loyalty? **** loyalty, you get paid to do the job, who ever pays more gets me to to the job! You think they are going to be loyal to you when you loose your medical? Its business! Time for money nothing else!
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really???
I don't know any other airlines which will take 2000 hours guy into a right hand seat A380...
I guess they are desperate indeed, requirements used to be much, much higher...
What a circus!
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From: The Pilot Grinder
You young man don't know anything i.e. JACK, about EK if you think this is true. Go back to the fridge and get another icypop son.
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From: UAE
Nope for your comment that you want to fly the 777, likes its the Bee's knees.
It's a sodding aeroplane, it goes up stays up for several hours and comes down.
While you sit there, trying to stay awake as its your Nth night turn in N days.
Once the old rose tinted specs fall away it's just a job.
And out here you don't fly, just manage the plane.
I see you are just about to start a cadet program, with all due respect how about going away and learning how to do the job and getting some time in first, before questioning the entry hours into EK, which were 8500 I think when I joined 13 years ago.
Yes I vaguely do remember being in my twenties, but we went from piston to turbo prop, Small jet B737 and all the way through various different types to the A380 I'm on now, and learnt the trade, rather than just relying on the magenta line and automation.
We didn't go from Cadet straight to the 380/777.
Sadly it is people of your generation who clutch themselves at the prospect of driving said big wonder jet, and even will pay the companies concerned to do so, that has lead to the current sorry state of T&C's within the business.
As I said another one who will coming running with BSJ syndrome.
It's a sodding aeroplane, it goes up stays up for several hours and comes down.
While you sit there, trying to stay awake as its your Nth night turn in N days.
Once the old rose tinted specs fall away it's just a job.
And out here you don't fly, just manage the plane.
I see you are just about to start a cadet program, with all due respect how about going away and learning how to do the job and getting some time in first, before questioning the entry hours into EK, which were 8500 I think when I joined 13 years ago.
Yes I vaguely do remember being in my twenties, but we went from piston to turbo prop, Small jet B737 and all the way through various different types to the A380 I'm on now, and learnt the trade, rather than just relying on the magenta line and automation.
We didn't go from Cadet straight to the 380/777.
Sadly it is people of your generation who clutch themselves at the prospect of driving said big wonder jet, and even will pay the companies concerned to do so, that has lead to the current sorry state of T&C's within the business.
As I said another one who will coming running with BSJ syndrome.
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From: my cockpit
Emirates... Emirates... Let me think.... Isn't it that airline where you'll get your health and your self-esteem down the drain ? Where your management will rule with pleasure on your life with a bully/invasive bias ?
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From: Escaped the sandpit 53° 32′ 9.19″ N, 9° 50′ 13.29″ E
Loyality is somehow a double edged sword. Working on a "dodgy contract" with questionable T&C's and more then 100K debt doesn't support loyality. Beeing forced into a bogus tax scheme neither.......
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From: UAE
ExDubai so why do it and then complain about it afterwards. Nobody forces anyone to sign on the dotted line for these conditions, but it's just the current sydrome of I want it now and rose tinted glasses, and for some those Instagram pictures they can post.