Growing Evidence That The Upturn Is Upon Us
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Sorry I think I was misunderstood. When I said flight school I was talking about someone fresh out the gate with a type rating.
So what we're saying is that if you have two pilots, one with a couple of thousand hours on type and one with with a fresh type rating the company would pay them the same. Would the guy with more experience not expect a lot more at least in terms of career progression
By the way I don't want to sound like an accountant here as I certainly feel for all the pilots who are struggling and I hope they all get sorted as soon as possible but I'm just thinking that airlines are run by people like Mr O'Leary and is this how they would be viewing it
So what we're saying is that if you have two pilots, one with a couple of thousand hours on type and one with with a fresh type rating the company would pay them the same. Would the guy with more experience not expect a lot more at least in terms of career progression
By the way I don't want to sound like an accountant here as I certainly feel for all the pilots who are struggling and I hope they all get sorted as soon as possible but I'm just thinking that airlines are run by people like Mr O'Leary and is this how they would be viewing it
Bombs away he may expect more but its what the company is willing to pay that dictates your pay. Its a fairly easy choice when you can either starve and lose your house or take a job at less/slightly less than your were earning.
As to a 200 hour kid with type rating makes stuff all difference as they still dont have time on type, which is what counts. Still much harder to train guys with low hours and a shiny new type rating than a guy with thousands of hours on type!
As someone said amount of pay is determined by time in company only a very few operators vary pay according to experience and that is normally in private/business jet ops.
As to a 200 hour kid with type rating makes stuff all difference as they still dont have time on type, which is what counts. Still much harder to train guys with low hours and a shiny new type rating than a guy with thousands of hours on type!
As someone said amount of pay is determined by time in company only a very few operators vary pay according to experience and that is normally in private/business jet ops.
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Well XL going bust has put the final nail in the coffin for me. Why bother continuing with training? I sometimes fly with an XL Captain in fact he instructed me for my night rating, lovely bloke, excellent pilot and now job hunting. Him and many, many others. These guys are low risk and readily employable. What chance do newly qualified peeps have?
I will get the ATPLS finished as I am 3/4 of the way there but then sit on my arse back in the day job for another 2 years before I absolutely have to do the CPL/IR. Is it 3 years from the date of the last exam to get the CPL/IR done or is there more that needs doing in this time or is it just the IR?
Thank fu*k I haven't just started an Integrated course.
Good Luck folks and deepest sympathy with all the XL Leisure Group employees.
MFWF
I will get the ATPLS finished as I am 3/4 of the way there but then sit on my arse back in the day job for another 2 years before I absolutely have to do the CPL/IR. Is it 3 years from the date of the last exam to get the CPL/IR done or is there more that needs doing in this time or is it just the IR?
Thank fu*k I haven't just started an Integrated course.
Good Luck folks and deepest sympathy with all the XL Leisure Group employees.
MFWF
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be grand for inetgrated students who have a dammm good contingincy plan...When i say this, there would need to be a job waiting for them in that particular industry..
Working in tescos or sainsbury's wnt cut this slack....
Working in tescos or sainsbury's wnt cut this slack....
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Alitalia perhaps the next to go? That will flood the european market with even more experienced pilots!
Think about it, ........... Alitalia, SkyEurope, the creepy huge AirBerlin group
Austrian Group won't have any more funds by mid-2009 if no one buys them up until then too.....
hope LH goes for it.
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MD of flybe;
MD of ba;
Throw the rule book of low hour pilot recruitment out the window!!
Toughest time for the industry, ever in history
MD of ba;
Expect 30 airlines to go under within next 4 months
Throw the rule book of low hour pilot recruitment out the window!!
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Alitalia perhaps the next to go? That will flood the european market with even more experienced pilots
There's a thread on Airliners about failed negociations but I think that it is very pessimistic. The way I see it, they are putting pressure on the unions and giving them the "what if it's really the end?". Because frankly, they don't need the ok of the unions to do this, they can bust everyone and rehire them one by one.
If Alitalia goes down, it will be very unfortunate for the job market as around 3000 pilots will come on the market.
It's too early to say that it's worse than 9/11... unless AZ really collapses. In the aftermath of 9/11 the Sabena-Swissair collapse put thousands of pilots on the market.
Think about it, ........... Alitalia, SkyEurope, the creepy huge AirBerlin group
Air Berlin is not likely.
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The year's not over yet...
And winter comes!
That link is interesting. F'rinstance, 2003 was the worst year for name changes and suspending flights. Out of 58, 20 of them were mergers or name changes, so presumably 38 carriers going pop.
This year so far, 53 in total, with 6 mergers, so presumably 47 carriers going pop or thereabouts.
The totals for the other years don't exceed 42, and that was in 2001 (perhaps unsurprisingly)
That link is interesting. F'rinstance, 2003 was the worst year for name changes and suspending flights. Out of 58, 20 of them were mergers or name changes, so presumably 38 carriers going pop.
This year so far, 53 in total, with 6 mergers, so presumably 47 carriers going pop or thereabouts.
The totals for the other years don't exceed 42, and that was in 2001 (perhaps unsurprisingly)
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I believe someone else called you an asshole recently?
Guys/Gals, I've actually agreed with WWW's and others predictions throughout, but from a different prospective, i've been in this industry longer than them, what you're experiencing now is what you are gonna see a few times (to say the least) in say, a 30 year flying career in the UK! You need to accept that, no sense of humour, go work in a bank - I started work in this industry in 1989, it's soooo different now...the good times will return...it's more of a case of what the industry has to offer - 5/6 UK airlines???!!!!
There's not much merit in a big debate about who was right, said what when and whatnot. I didn't mind in the slightest that people expounded very different views to me on the housing market, the general economy and the likely future state of the Wannabe employment market. I welcomed those debates because they were the most engaging way of illustrating the issues to Wannabes. That illustration was all I wanted to provide.
Things are coming to pass pretty much as I expected and that causes me nothing but sadness and concern. There's nothing to say that my own employment aspirations will not be seriously scuppered by the coming storm.
By the winter of 2009 I think we will probably be at the bottom and from there on I expect a plateau and then eventually an upturn followed by a boom.
What remains to be done now by all Wannabes is to manage the situation as best as possible. Those that avoided the worst debt obligations and those that can slow down their training will be best placed. As far as that goes I'm pleased that my - and others - advice along those lines has been shown to be good.
To this point I was highly confident of what was going to happen. From this point on my crystal ball is frustratingly cloudy. As such my ability to give advice is much diminished.
What I can offer in an unreserved fashion is my sympathy if you are going to be hurt by all this.
There is more to come. Willie Walsh is on Sky News as I type predicting another 30 EU airlines to go bust in the next 12 months.
BA won't be one of them and I see very little reason for Walsh to be spinning a line to the benefit of his company.
The good times will return.
WWW
Things are coming to pass pretty much as I expected and that causes me nothing but sadness and concern. There's nothing to say that my own employment aspirations will not be seriously scuppered by the coming storm.
By the winter of 2009 I think we will probably be at the bottom and from there on I expect a plateau and then eventually an upturn followed by a boom.
What remains to be done now by all Wannabes is to manage the situation as best as possible. Those that avoided the worst debt obligations and those that can slow down their training will be best placed. As far as that goes I'm pleased that my - and others - advice along those lines has been shown to be good.
To this point I was highly confident of what was going to happen. From this point on my crystal ball is frustratingly cloudy. As such my ability to give advice is much diminished.
What I can offer in an unreserved fashion is my sympathy if you are going to be hurt by all this.
There is more to come. Willie Walsh is on Sky News as I type predicting another 30 EU airlines to go bust in the next 12 months.
BA won't be one of them and I see very little reason for Walsh to be spinning a line to the benefit of his company.The good times will return.
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Is this the worse period the airline industry has seen yet?
Which period was worse than this one?
Which period was worse than this one?
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Travel companies and locos/airlines have had it good for maybe 3-5 years, this introduces entrepreneurial aspirations in management so you see start ups/aquisitions and expansion.
Problem being everybody wants/needs a bite of the apple, XL/Zoom/Futura in their failing whilst incredibly unfortunate actually goes some way to helping the future of the others.
Larger airlines will lick their wounds, nobody will be daft enough to make inroads into the remaining reducing capacity whilst they do so.
Over the next 5-7 years prices will firm up, positive profits will stabilise on the reduced capacity, until such times as the streamlined profits and entrepreneurial spirit will return and start ups, aquisitions and expansion will come around again.
Bombs Away
Airlines should aspire to have a "standard distribution" of experience, imagine a bell shape in profile in the bottom left is a small area of inexperienced crew, the thick bit in the middle contains upgradeable SFO's and FO's and expereienced captains with a few crusty pending retirees in the bottom right hand corner. This has safety benefits, personnel benefits and prevents direct entry commands promotes internal promotion and gives beancounters a target for early retirement and or voluntary redundancy in said bottom rh corner
Airlines like Ryanair have huge experience gaps which is why they revert to the contract market regularly and have the crewing reputation that they do.
Sympathies to XL crews lets not forget the unfortunate zoom and futura crews that already seem like yesterdays news
Problem being everybody wants/needs a bite of the apple, XL/Zoom/Futura in their failing whilst incredibly unfortunate actually goes some way to helping the future of the others.
Larger airlines will lick their wounds, nobody will be daft enough to make inroads into the remaining reducing capacity whilst they do so.
Over the next 5-7 years prices will firm up, positive profits will stabilise on the reduced capacity, until such times as the streamlined profits and entrepreneurial spirit will return and start ups, aquisitions and expansion will come around again.
Bombs Away
Airlines should aspire to have a "standard distribution" of experience, imagine a bell shape in profile in the bottom left is a small area of inexperienced crew, the thick bit in the middle contains upgradeable SFO's and FO's and expereienced captains with a few crusty pending retirees in the bottom right hand corner. This has safety benefits, personnel benefits and prevents direct entry commands promotes internal promotion and gives beancounters a target for early retirement and or voluntary redundancy in said bottom rh corner
Airlines like Ryanair have huge experience gaps which is why they revert to the contract market regularly and have the crewing reputation that they do.
Sympathies to XL crews lets not forget the unfortunate zoom and futura crews that already seem like yesterdays news
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Forget about it. Completely. Do something productive. Useful. Go into an ops department or get a job at an airport - start making links now, it will benefit you in a few years time. Whatever you do *don't* throw money at flying training - screw the dream, smell the coffee.
I've been following this thread for a while and my own thoughts and WWW's predictions have been remarkably in line. Who supplies your balls, WWW?
I've been following this thread for a while and my own thoughts and WWW's predictions have been remarkably in line. Who supplies your balls, WWW?
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Modular Route why not now?
If you were going the mod route, which took me four years (not rushing) then now would`nt be a bad time.
Start the PPL and enjoy the hour building towards a brighter future.
Dont mean to start a training debate
Start the PPL and enjoy the hour building towards a brighter future.
Dont mean to start a training debate
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Just to make a point. Around 200,000 people who had holidays booked with XL are now suddenly going to have to find another travel firm to take them on. Call my thinking simple, but I think this creates a sudden demand and need for the likes of Thomson and Thomas Cook to expand. They need to think about laying on additional 1,000 flights for the coming few months and increasing their capacity by 25% (XL's market share) for the future. Majority of these people will still want a holiday.