Finally, the much awaited e-mail!

:ok::ok::ok::ok:

got the call at last. all the very best to you guys.

Jet airways assessment 2011
 

Dear Friends,
I have also received the same call for Assessment and I am planning to do little preparation .
we can sit and do some disucssions and prepare ourselves for the 3rd week aug 2011.
You may contact me on 9869315394 (Amar) or [email protected]
I will make all the arrangement with nominal contribution from all and hire some place for gathereing.
At least discussing will vent out the frustrations.

@THE_WING & dark_star
 

The speculation earlier was that there would be written exam sessions every march and Aug. keeping in mind that the GD for the March session is still pending, i was only trying to arrive at a conclusion that there wont be any written sessions this Aug although Jet reports there're still many vacancies to be filled up.

cheers,
P

Can anyone please suggest me a good class for gd and interview in Delhi or Mumbai

hey guys, i cleared jet written in Aug last year but couldn't make it in the GD, however i got an email from jet in feb that i will be allowed to sit again for the GD i.e second round for jet. i see people have got the call for 3rd week of AUG. anyone from Aug who got this call?? or they are not planing to call guys from last year who didnt make it through the GD.

@eaglewings11
I got the call for august and I cleared last year.

i cleared in august 2010 and failed the gd that time around they definately are calling us. you should follow up with them.

@3443 nautical miles
There are no gd classes anywhere because that is something you cannot learn also if you see your initial letter from jet it says you can't prepare for it its just you have to be yourself and if you try to fake they will surely gonna catch you cause they are too experienced guys who conduct GD...

any ideas if jetairways is gonna conduct other round of writtens?/

i believe the TR for 737 is now 20 lacs and ATR is 8 lacs, can someone confirm this?

TR for 737 is 20 L and for the ATR is 15 L. Confirmed.

wow you can't be serious :ugh: that sounds like a little too much for both aircraft :eek:

it actually surprises me that not alot of pilots voice out their opinion about the airlines sponsoring the TR rather than being self-sponsored, as if 20-25 lacs on cpl training wasn't enough along with additional expenses such as accommodation, food, traveling, license conversion process etc, the costs being borne by the candidate seem endless with no respite at all, i think it's about time the airlines started to consider sponsoring the TR, especially with the way they're expanding (spending millions of dollars on new aircraft), surely a few lacs per pilot can't be a big deal? i haven't heard of pilots sponsoring their own TR in other countries, so may be this is just a norm within airlines here to take advantage of the situation?

besides i'm sure out of the 4000-5000 pilots that are unemployed, there's a good majority that would find it difficult paying for their own TR, i'm just curious about what happens to a candidate who goes through all the stages of an airline process and reveals to the management that he/she can't afford to pay for the TR, would that imply this candidate is sidelined/ignored? would this be fair? it seems to me these days that only people with the money and/or influence get a fair share of the vacancies

P.S - this being my 100th post, thank you pprune! :)

In Jet Airways I thought you receive a part of the money back after 5 years ?

Is it True ?

i'm not sure if it's true or not, i haven't heard about it, but either way, my point is, as an airline, why not give a candidate (someone unable to afford TR) the option to sign something like a "bond" (not paying for the TR initially, but compensating by means of fore-going a certain part of his/her income for a certain period of time)? it's just baffling :confused:

it is true a friend of mine who got into jet in september last year signed a contract saying the same and back then it was 15 lakhs so it was 15 lakhs upfront from which 7.5 lakhs you get back over the course of your contract.

@aroumika

these airlines are smart nowadays why should they pay for your TR when you can give them a lump sum of 20 lakhs and they invest practically the whole amount earn interest over 5 years and pay you back with the interest they earn from that amount, from a business point of view it makes sense, but unfortunately us pilots face the brunt of their unscrupulous ways. well with their orders of aircrafts most of the TRs are free of cost which they get from the aircraft manufacturers and also they have training centers in bangalore as well as mumbai so essentially all that we give them is used as capital for the company.

@thearsenal
i understand your point of view too, but for how long will they keep inducting candidates who are able to afford their TR? at some point, most if not all candidates able to self-sponsor will decrease (assuming they're all hired by some airline or the other) and they're going to start getting candidates qualifying through all stages of selection process, but unable to pay for their TR, my question is what would they do with such candidates then?

@ Aroumika
 

The stage you are talking about is never gonna come... 85% - 90% of the people who pursue aviation belong to a wealthy background. I hope u wont deny that. They have already spent 20 - 25 lac on their initial training. Now they have reached the stage where its a dead end !!! Either you pay more and recover watever you have paid in the next 2 - 2.5 yrs or you can relax back and wait for the GOLDEN ERA when airline used to pay for the training... and trust me that stage is never gonna come back...

People spending money is no surprise... I've seen people during my initial training loosing lac's when their school shut down, but instead of giving up aviation they pluck some more from the MONEY TREE in the backyard and started training in another school.

Now i see 737 type rated people... talking about giving Indigo written examination and after getting the LOI spend again on the 320 rating from their own pocket....

Its really surprising !!!!

yup blackhawk hit the nail on the head. that day will never come I am pretty sure unless there is some intervention by the government but then again, I doubt that will happen and even if that day came that pilots could no longer afford to pay for their TRs, until that day jet airways, Indigo, Spice etc. will make hay while the sun shines.