Where did you get this information from? are they only your own speculations?

I know for a fact that there has been recruitment initiated after that the form has been removed through agencies, contacts within the company, people lucky when shown up at the office in person etc.

I am type qualified F/O on A330/A340 fleet. Are they still recruiting long haul F/Os?

Kind rgds

:sad:

I heard November Turkish will be hiring again......ANY TRUTH TO THAT?

The sayings of the rumours have wandered gradually from April/May up to late autumn.

thanks....mr SWE, how do you like it working for turkish...are you a captain or first officer......

Any news regarding the recruitment situation at THY?

For us zero to hero pilots moneys not important for the first couple of years! We need the experience first! Money for some of us is the least of the worry!

C'me on dude.. THY is one of the best employers at the moment. A friend of me is a cadet at the flight academy, and is going to earn approx €4,000 a month. After his flight training he only has a debt of €85,000. BUT he has a guaranteed job!

THYTHY ..not -25% but -33% (Augustus 2010-2011)

To be hired as a cruise Cpt or F/O , not as a CPT...

But still wearing the Cpt uniform...

:ok:

I think there are somewhere between 25-30 aircrafts still to be delivered. Are they so overcrewed that they can afford losing alot of people?

I find it really disappointing. I came here for a better work environment, and found that to be the case. However, the Lira is devaluing so much, the balance is now tipped to the other side. I just can't work for such low salary compared to what the market is paying now.

It's a shame. I can't see THY doing anything about it though. The Turkish pilots would never allow us to be paid more than them. If the contracts were originally in US Dollars or Euros, then the exchange rate would have effectively given us more than them, but that is due to currency fluctuation where we have to convert our money for bills/investments etc. Now the exchange rate is crap, we have no chance, as now it would just be viewed as a pay rise for non Turkish pilots. The horse has already bolted.

THY are about to lose a large portion of their pilots IMHO.

:hmm:

It has begun.

But most people are on a long contract hindering them from leaving right?

recruitment
 

aozc,
lads,
one of recruitment agencies recruiting for tk is sigmaaviationservices(dot)com.
currently looking for long haul SFOs and SFIs, I am sure they will have more positions (not just simulator trainers)
you can get more info directly from them: info(at)sigmaaviationservices(dot)com or recruitment(at)sigmaaviationservices(dot)com

best of luck :)

The moral of the Pilots on all Types is going down as the situation within the operation changed quickly. Some A340 Expats did not get the contract renwed, some B777 Captains got a notifcation that they will be terminated due to age now 63 and not 65. Other Guy´s having now Visa issues and are out of order (and pay).

The A320 / B737 guy´s hardly get home on a regular base and the ID90 deal is over after one year, so the gate is open and with the drive of the devaluation of the TRY against the USD,EUR, STG or other mayor currencies the flush is accelerating people out.

Yes there are more Aiplanes on order and yes there are more Pilots to be qualified to turn the Metal around but the organisation and the cooperation internally and externally is not in a row and that is cost incentive and needs to be straightend soon if not even a legacy carrier can face problems that hurts him seriously.

Administration is a obstacle for itself, you get nothing done in a short time and time is not money for them, yet !!! It is something that is not in the deep consideration of all involved.

Is the Turkish DGCA a JAR member ? How come they still demand validations for the Expats, how come they still demand medicals from Turkish AME´s?

There are alot of other obstacles you face, daily. Roster? Something what changes like the bid on the stock market, you can get call´s a few times per day for the next day and you dont know where you ending up flying to exactly until you sit in your plane. Publishing is two or three days before and of the Calender Month, theoretically, don´t bother what it states, it will change anyhow, so stop making plans.

Good things: Sure there are really good things, the food on the plane is outstanding, carefull you can gain weight weekly. The climate amongst the crews is nice, good fellows to fly with, relaxed and layed back. If there is a problem it will be solved with the statement: No problem, we fix it somehow. One helps the other.

The only problem: The real problems are not taken care of, that´s a problem.

Fly safe and land happy

NG

Can you fill us in on the contract change. Is it not 1 year probation followed by a 3 year contract?

No. Not any more. New contract are only 1 year instead of 3years.

What a drastic change:*

Thats too bad and I was thinking about applying for a captain position with THY

No- according to HR, maybee next year, but there are a lot of F/O´s waiting for upgrade

Exit
 

They are not hiring, they are letting people go on all Fleet and seat types.

Scroll up and see the statement from end of August, nothing changed to the better.

The Company has also no power when it comes to Visa-renewals. Some Guy´s from last December and Janaury course are still not on line due to slow process of Administration / Government coordination or left again as they just could not stand it anymore with the uncertainty of what is tomorrow or even next week.

Profitability is in question, the utilisation of the B777´s is not optimized. Some of them went back to 9W and the future expansion is also not so certain anymore. Even they take you on, with one year contract you can start looking again when you signed it.

Flying is still nice, the Cabin - Cockpit relation remains good and getting better the more you know them. It is a pleasure when all works out but the way to get there is demanding.

Fly safe and land happy

NG

Does anyone know when the cadet pilot programma will start?

ThY interview for FO's
 

Dear sir,

I will have an assessment with THY next week for an FO position on the 737. could you plz give me any info. regarding the interview and the sim.

your help is highly appreciated.

The Assassins by Prof Bernard Lewis
 

I seem to perceive a sense of uncertainty of you new comers daring to join this sewer of lies and deception. It starts with the AK Party making people believe on their local papers, that Turkish people are 99.9% religious and observe the rules of the Koran. "Today's Zaman":}

I wont go very much into detail, but I let you read the book above for those approaching this side of the Middle East, Turkish are a rather lukewarm pathetic people with pride, that one similar to the Assassins described by Prof.Bernard Lewis.

The upper management of THY are nothing else but imitators of the ideals and methods of the first group of the enigmatic Legendary "Man of the Mountain":suspect: to make planned, systematic, and long term use of murder as a political weapon. The Assassins is the most comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists.

THY recently terrorized Hava-Is (THY employees union),with the sacking of 305 exemplary employees, they gained the favor of their "arkadash" (friends and colleagues) in the AK Political party, who imposed that transportation employees do not have the right to strike in Turkey; the same suppressors of freedom of speech that I made mention on my previous thread and offer copy below as a reminder for those who believe they want to have a future with this thieves.:yuk: Please see below, the onus is on you, I rest my case.


Thumbs up The price of freedom of speech:ok:
Toplam, or the total of losses to 1/June/2012 is 305. majority F/A's, 45 ground engineers and one local Captain A340. This is only the beginning, Hava-Is, the union has started an open protest for the approved in parliament law to ban strikes from essential transportation sources, as they dubbed it. "Give me freedom or give me death"!
People in Turkey live in fear, from former high ranking military personnel to journalist being arrested for speaking openly, to a culture that under Islam pretends to be faithful to a bunch of clowns elected by Ankara.
Most THY pilots are military background, a culture that relish in executing mission goals. This airmen served the Air force, Navy, Army until the miracle of joining THY happened, as their salaries quadruple overnight. They are not the best material for a strike based on democratic values. The only democracy they know is the one that comes from the stream of water they feel in their ass when they sit in their toilet. Turkey is surrounded by hostile neighbors, the Armenian genocide, the Greeks still claiming Smyrna and Constantinopla, the Cypriots crying occupation since 1974, the Jews invoking more flotilla killings, the Syrians in exile being used by the PM to maintain his popularity, Iraq and Iran being manipulated, and so on, makes of this place a chocking breath environment; The fact that THY management is backed by governmental policies to subdue unions in Turkey is unfortunate. I can envision a pilot group paid like bus drivers and maybe facing death penalty should they refuse to work in the future, a model country for totalitarian if not dictatorship.:oh: "Humble" foreign drivers as the moderator of the foreign website forum put it, as well as the doomed Turkish pilots, (bunch of pussies)do not deserve the courage and dedication that a small group of flight attendants, and ground engineers in solidarity, brought this company to a standstill for over 48hrs. Imagine if no one moved for 48hrs?? Ankara AK party, THY management and the rest of Turkey would have been liberated from all this wrongful policies suppressing the human right to speak. Turkish flying personnel are about to chose, flight with dignity, or work like slaves, unhappy and humiliated. To the courageous colleagues lost on May/29-30, congratulations, may the truth set you free!

THY selection
 

hello,

I will have selections at THY in few weeks, does anybody know anything about the selection process, what to expect?

thank you!

Thy
 

Check your pm.

THY selection
 

Hi everybody, I am having selection in THY can anybody tell me what to expect?

Thank you

You will go to sim. If ok then office meeting.:ok:

Turkish SIM Assessment
 

Hi All
Does anyone know what to expect for sim assesmet on A320 for Captains?
Many Tks for any help

Location
 

Just curious, but why do you state Dunedin NZ as your location. did you immigrate?

I lived in Turkey and still maintain a home in Istanbul. The traffic sucks but the people are great. So much that I married a Turk. I would go if I was young enough to fly again.

I know how you feel

Turkish C172 Instructors
 

Turkish Air are interviewing for C172 instructors. Has anyone been for selection yet?
Has anyone any news with regards to this?

Cheers
Tinmouse

Is there any possibility to become a first officer with them after your time at the flight training school? Like with Lufthansa..

Turkish Airlines - THY Recruitment (Merged)
 

Hi everybody !

I'm going to the screening in Istanbul for flight instructor. Does anybody have feedbacks about it ?

Thank you very much,
Thomas

Can you maybe let us know if there will be any chance to promoted to 'first officer' after instructing X years?

Nothing has been told to me about that ...

Cessna 172 Instructors?
 

Did I read your post right? Turkish hiring Cessna 172 instructors?

That would indicate they can't get enough expats to come there and fly for them, and need to train from the bottom up.

Hmmm, I wonder how much they are paying. If it was a lot it might be a better gig than sitting in hotels everywhere in the world for half the year.

They are looking for instructors to their academy.

Payment is the same as for a 737 or A320 FO......
At least that is what i've been told.