Wow:).....what about my August vacation?

Could the 18 be back to back, so that I get 36 at home?

Just Landed,

Nothing personal towards you. It is just a long standing rule of thumb on the forum not to post salary specifics. Too many ex-wives, girlfriends and tax authorities lurking and looking for discrepancies. Inaccurate information posted here can very easily and has very easily caused audits and headaches.

Process for training ?
 

I quickly read through the thread missing some pages and such and I didn't see anyone talking about the applying for training process and how does it work.

Basically I'm a Saudi in 11th grade with next year being his last school year, I've been dreaming of becoming a pilot ever since i saw my first plane.

Several questions

to a Saudi pilot, what was the process to get into the cadet pilot program cause the Saudia website doesn't have any info about it.

To anyone, is the studying part hard ?, Tiring ?
And is it worth it at the end ?

Thank you
- a curious kid

@Ghostiix

The first thing to remember is that most of us are expats so we came to Saudi as qualified pilots. You are therefore more likely to find the information that you require on arabic sites as it is obviously the native language of the people seeking the cadet jobs.

AFAIK, there are two ways for cadets to join:
1: Go train to CPL/ME/IR standards at your own expense, i believe that this costs around SAR350,000 in Saudi with either Rabaigh Wings or SAFA.
2: Get accepted in the Government college graduate program where you will obtain a BSc in Aviation studies with the CLP/MR/IR, this takes about 4 years.

There is a lot of study involved, but its based on the American system so it isn't rocket science.

Have you tried flying the B777 simulator in the Red Sea Mall Jeddah? This might give you an idea of where you could be in 5 years time :)

Good Luck

So my guess for Saudia 2020, with the reawakening of Flyadeal, is the proposed 200 aircraft fleet will actually comprise 50 aircraft at flyadeal and 150 at Saudia, so no major expansion of Saudia. It also looks like a shift towards the Spanish IAG model.

If they will staff the positions from current SVA employees, I don't think we would see any signs of recruitment. Much like Supervisors, Fleet Managers, GM Flying etc, there is already a short list of candidates. These would be guys already known to Gaca, approval should not be to much of a pain.

There may be some delay but flyadeal is going to happen. It's the way that they want to move the airline "group" forward. It's like IAG with Vueling, Vueling is now bigger than Iberia. They need to move into a company which has lower costs. Nothing could be more clear.

If flydeal will take a piece of cake from SV revenue without taking the same piece from SV costs then how SV will deal with the fixed costs remaining on their accounts? Part of direct operating costs will be shifted, but SV ground staff, IT and other fixed costs will remain the same.
For me their business case is unclear yet.

No more sandwiches and fruit for crew..... what is the airline coming to?

The sandwiches are sometimes the best part of the catering!

I'm glad they gave the annual pay hike at least ! Finally.

Only on some flights Mutt, we got them today on international flight out if JED.

Flyboy, retroactive too!

Another interesting change is that the Eid holidays will be reduced to 4 days rather than 10.

All this whilst over 250 expat pilots rot in a sub standard 2 star hotel per force.
Some with a family of 5 members living in a 2 room 'suite'. As Crown Town Managment would like to call it !
:\ :ugh: :\ :eek:

250!! Wow.... with the number of housing units under completion within the compound, I'm surprised that they haven't started moving people out from the hotel or even to RUH.

Housing units under completion....?
Mutt, are you referring to units or villas in the compound in Jeddah by any chance ...?!

Various apartments, villas etc are all undergoing renovation and a lot are at the stage of having furniture delivered. So there has to be room for you guys soon :)

The apartments where furniture was being delivered has been cancelled.
And the Saudia city compound has started to look more and more like a distant dream. Only moving further and further with time...

Strange as i can look out my window and see their delivery trucks.