Decided well
 

Just slammed the door and heading for Asia. All of us Captains were under extreme pressure at THY recently. HR was doing a terrible job last years and still is. 5 years in Asia should give me a healthy distance to THY. Hope that they change their attitude in the meantime so I can return and do my job in my home country again.

It used to be the case that widebody DECs were given the option of company provided hotel accommodation while in base. That is no longer available.
Can anyone recently hired and sourcing their own accommodation near the new airport, tell us how their experience has been so far.
There is one hotel listed at/near the airport. I imagine early checkins and late checkouts, seasonal variation in room availability and cost, could make it a frustrating and expensive process.

Can accommate in hotels around Ataturk and use the shuttle buses, some expats still do that. Havent seen any hotel around the airport btw

hi mirage. you should try at ryr, they need dec. in asia garuda is definitely worth a notion. what about china southern? flydubai has also improved conditions.
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Low time pilot with no jet experience
 

Hi everyone,
Do you know if Turkish Airlines hire pilots with no Jet experience? I live in U.S I fly Shorts 360. I have around 800 hours Multi Turbine time and 1200 TT..

Best regards

Normally they don't. But there have been many exceptions to their rules recently. Would still try and send directly a mail to responsible person for recruiting expats.

They request 1500 hrs above 27 tonnes. Don't send them an email if you don't fulfill the requirements.

A cousin or a friend or a friend of a cousin at the HR department may help also....

psychomantic;

I've heard they hired bunch of new pilots (they had only 200 hours or something) from Germany. That's why I got my hopes up.

middle east is a place with no standards at all, specially a bad job like this where they don't have enough pilots to fill the vacancy. I wouldn't mind to try.... The no is likely, but it's free.

But I forgot... turkey is Europe HAHA
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Just went quickly over some posts, sorry if I missed somehing. It seems THY is getting more and more desperate, now reading that even turkish people are leaving is a bit impressive. I was interviewed for the THY "gig" already around 2013, passed but did not join(especially the THY "instructors" on the sim did not really made a great impression to me(e.g. had 3 of them, all locals, all THY - ALL of them talking ALL the time in turkish with each other, the guy that was supposed to assist me made an incredible bad job at it playing my FO(do not know if intentionally or it is just standard down there), most of the time I had to do it by myself because even repeatedly asked to do a job the guy never did, was to busy jabbing in turkish to his mates.Forgot to mention that my entire "sim briefing" was taking exactly 2 Minutes(yes!!) At the end I did it solo which turned out fine but not for me personally).

Apart from that they do NOT offer a proper commuting roster, even not for europeans. And I do not want my family in Istanbul(no offence, but that is how I feel, especially now with the new sultan rising, you do not want loved ones trapped in that country at the moment). Then there is the decreasing value of the turkish lira. Simply not interesting anymore for any westener. I need to pay my bills in Euros and not in TL(which are down to 0,15 already).

Now, Turkish tried a few times to "convince" me to join. Apparently now they are back to agencies, just received an email with the "fantastic" terms last week.

I would say - IF you got a job, don't even bother thinking about THY. IF you are young, low on experience, unemployed, it might be your time to join that outfit as they become more and more desperate. Strangly they do not think to improve salaries and commuting roster with guaranteed seat in the THY network, maybe offer Euros instead of TL to Western Pilots. So many ways they COULD attract pilots with significant experience, however, they choose not to. Not my airline so I honestly do not care.

tomuchwork

I really appreciate it. I'm aware of all that stuff but I think it would be good experience to work there. I'm just not sure if they would hire me or not ...

Not only from Germany, but also other countries from Europe. But now only experienced FOs

tomuchwork

Some comments:
* desperate no. People are leaving, but also coming. Saw last week 10 captains opening a bank account in Yesilköy
* commuting roster (8/9 days block off) only for the widebody 777/330 with confirmed seat for captains only
* they won't pay in euro, don't expect that
* sultan or president, don't come up with things, don't make up

Do you know if they ask for Apt? I'm 300 hours shy from my APT and ATP written.

Income taxes are much higher. It's about 20% without social sec deductions. THY isn't worth a notion.

tomuchwork

They mailed me twice within 6 weeks. They stopped low hour pilots intake but desperately searching for DEC. I would rather work for Arik air than for THY.