Gnirren

Maybe one point is that only finnish understand the language, whereas I can read danish and norweigan ok even though I'm swedish?

Jimmy The Big Greek

I think its more likely that they do not like to hire foreigners.
In your work you just need to know English

Margarita

Jimmy,
I don't think that they care from where you come from but good command in finnish language would make the life much easier for you and others.

NordicMan

I did not read the whole thread... But have a look in the bloody "Frog" forum...
No one seems to be complaining when they are typing in french.

Regards.

N.M

JJflyer

Sure hope they don't drop the language requirement... Lets face it. SAS requires you to speak one of the "Scandinavian" languages. KLM wants you to learn Dutch. For Lufthansa one needs to speak German or learn it. Want to work for any UK or US company and don't speak English, think you can get hired?

I still remember a Georgian, then Soviet Union, pilot who moved to Finland learned the language and has been with Finnair since the late 80's.

JJ

FL540

Hi!

Any new information concerning pilot recruitment? Are they still hiring? Any news about their financial situation?

Thanks!

NordicJetSet

In todays newspaper there's a big ad by Air Finland for recruiting pilots. The management has told everywhere that last year was very good financially, but they haven't told any numbers...

Jr. Ewing

From their website...

Jr.

OnRoute

There is now also an other Finnish forum that tries to fulfill the need that FsNordic doesn't that is anonymous or semi-anonymous discussion for Finnish commercial pilots in Finnish. This can be found at http://wings.iphorum.com/.

-OnRoute-

duece19

If Im not mistaken (which I sure could be) PPRuNe staff banned finnish because they had no moderator that spoke the lingo at that stage, and thus would have no control over the postings, which clearly is not good on a forum of this size.

Legal issues is a big thing these days and if that was the real reason I can only agree with the decision. Having said that, it would not be impossible to find finnish speaking member and train him as a moderator.

Anyways: Hopefully some of you´s get jobs with Air Finland, and if you are not finnish speakers you should atleast make an effort to learn

cheers

duece

Finnrotor.com

Now that is a very good thing! Finally Finnish professional aviators have a place to chat in Finnish. And looking at it, there's certainly some discussion going on already, not exactly a "slow start"..