flyDubai new COO
 

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Captain Gile joins flydubai from Skybus Airlines, an American low cost carrier, where he was President and Chief Operating Officer for four years.

Published: August 05, 2008, 10:04
flydubai appoints new COO

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flydubai, the new low-cost airline formed by the government of Dubai in March, announced today that Kenneth Gile, has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer.

Captain Gile joins flydubai from Skybus Airlines, an American low cost carrier, where he was President and Chief Operating Officer for four years. Before that Captain Gile worked in a variety of positions at Southwest Airlines over a period of 25 years, including Chief Pilot and Director of Flight Operations.

As Chief Operating Officer of flydubai, Captain Gile will be responsible for the day to day running of the airline and have specific responsibility for strategic planning, in-flight services, ground operations, flight operations, maintenance and engineering, as well as acting as the Director of Operations.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, Chief Executive Officer of flydubai, said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Captain Ken Gile to the position of Chief Operating Officer of flydubai. Ken has a wealth of experience working with low cost carriers and we are proud to have been able to attract him to Dubai to work with flydubai. Ken’s experience will be invaluable in getting flydubai off the ground.

“This is our first appointment and a very important one for us. Now that we have made this key appointment, we can move forward with the work of getting our airline ready to begin commercial operations in mid 2009.”

Captain Gile, said: “I am honoured to have been given the chance to get involved with flydubai in such an early stage in its development. This is a very exciting opportunity and I am looking forward to contributing to the success of flydubai.

“I have worked in aviation my whole career, and much of that time has been spent working with low cost carriers, so I believe I have a lot to offer flydubai. The flydubai business model is strong and we are working hard to assemble an unbeatable product and a top class team of individuals. I am confident flydubai is going to be an extremely successful airline and I am proud to be a part of it.”

Captain Gile started his career in the United States Airforce. After six years in the military, he moved to Jeddah with Saudi Arabian Airlines. Captain Gile then returned to the US, where he joined Southwest Airlines as a Pilot and worked his way up the ranks to become Chief Pilot and Director of Flight Operations.

Captain Gile is married with three children and seven grandchildren.

flydubai was set up by the government of Dubai in March 2008. Last month flydubai placed the largest ever order for Boeing 737 aircraft by a gulf based low cost carrier, when it order 54 737-800s at the Farnborough Air Show.


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Gee - that was slow. Ken has been resident at the FlyDubai project office (EGHQ 9th floor) for almost a month now. He's even been with GAG at Farnborough. Are you guys losing your edge, or what?:hmm:

How does one apply for flydubai? I know it says to apply via the EK site. But the EK site has no link for FlyDubai. Its a straight up EK application.

anyone knows about the benefits n pay scale plus allowance with this airline for capt n FO

piggy backing on EK recuiting until they get on their own, pay not as good as AA, could be why they picked the 73 and not the 320, with out provided housing give it a miss

Hey Ken...
 

I hope you do better job at FlyDubai then you did at SKYBUS. Good luck to you...

Does anyone have specifics on the T&C proposed for FlyDubai? Anyone.....? No Housing? :=

the soon to be laid off expats from Jet, Spice AIX...will jump over !...

Very bad Start
 

very bad start if this guy mantain the same politics.
SKYBUS was the worst company USA ever had.

My GOD! no Housing in Dubai? No way Jose!

SkyBus had an unsustainable business model for sure, but from former colleagues, the working environment was pleasant, (albeit the package was dismal to say the least), and there was a positive "can-do" team spirit in place...:ok:

This thing has BA/GO written all over it....its a shame they couldnt get B Cassani to run it....she might have made it work
Let the show begin!!..:}

with all the slave labor in Dubai, they should not have any trouble making profits...

I doubt that FlyDubai will need anyone for atleast 10-12 months from now.
So laid off expats will have to go elsewhere for a while. DEC requirements for FlyDubai are currently the same as EK since they are piggbacking their application process with EK. If there are not going to be providing housing then it will not be particularly attractive considering the high cost in Dubai. But as always if you need a job one might have to take what is available at the time, and keep looking for a better opportunity.

Does anyone have Kenneth Gile's email address?

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57,000/- looks good on paper but factor in the 20,000/- ++++ pm house rent for a decent accomodation which is increasing year on year....rest of T's and C's looks fairly even to the other LCC's ....
all the best to NG drivers...
masalama.

Education is low. As well parking at your oun expense? At least we know what $ amount EK puts on Audi transport. To bad Capt's have to be typed.

Fly Dubai 57000AED pm
 

Just trying to crunch some numbers for Fly Dubai...
P1s get 57000 AED .. thats 15K USD...tax free

can someone whos living in dubai give me something to start??
can you fill in the blanks for the following expenses????

Home Rental/EMI.....(nice 2-3 BR appt. house is a decent neighbourhood)
Food + Utilities......
Car payments.....
other expenses necessary for the middle east... (buy tunics??? ;))
its just me and my wife right now but would surely wanna know how much the kids expenses are..........

cheers guys...
thanx

If you are smart enough to earn that kind of money u shud be smart enough to work out how to search the myriad pages on this forum already devoted to "living in the sandpit" ;)