Air Sahara India
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Re: Air Sahara India & B737NG Contract is India
These two threads have been merged, not moved as indicated. All I need to discover now is how to show that in the title of the merged threads!
Patience please, thanks and regards, BE.
Patience please, thanks and regards, BE.
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Well, i can now attest to how busy the DGCA are regards the interview. Licensing arranged for me last week to meet with the dreaded inspector on Tuesday the 3rd of January, and guess what? No interview due to inspector being overwhelmed by the number of foreign pilots being interviewed. Oh well will now have to wait until the inspector has some spare time to see me. I do feel sorry for our licensing people though, trying vainly to explain to me that i couldnt get an interview. No worries i keep telling them, ill be on call at the hotel! They thank me for being very understanding and off back to the hotel i go.Got back and was greeted by an old hand (american),who once again advised me to enjoy the time off while it lasted. Once you work son, that skin of yours gonna shine? Nurries mate as I just laugh and head off to my room. The numbers do keep dwindling however as another of the old timers has been called to Mumbai, (that dreaded place again lol) got called early today and off he went later that night.
Oh an interesting thing is that i went to collect my allowances today and saw that there are quite a few expats here, at least 40 by the two sheets of names i was able to see and both my company and another well known ryanair subsidiary company were evenly represented There was also little well known company in asia with about 4 reps. I went with a mate and actually saw the date that our pro rata wages were paid to our contractor. Tell you what guys, if the company tells you that your wages are late due to Air Sahara not paying them then i can tell you now that your contractor is bull ****eing you. Mind you after saying this i only saw my mates and my statements, so if we are the only ones who got paid while we were travelling bisiness class to Delhi then we must indeed be special. The contractors are paid ahead of the due date. I even saw the two names that speedy said had resigned, one was indeed our german 76 skipper and another that sounded like a south american or filipino name, not too sure but i know that he was represented by the least well known of the three contractors.
The drive there and back was interesting and Kaptain M you would most definately feel at home here, the driving was truly ala phillipines like with 5 cars to a 3 lane motorway, the honking of the car horns ...wow and after countless near accidents i never heard our driver swear once. A colleague remarked that the rest of the world could learn from the locals on how to drive and not swear etc etc...Paitence? Took an hour to get there and another hour plus to get back. My foot now hurts from all the reflex braking i was doing.
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Oh an interesting thing is that i went to collect my allowances today and saw that there are quite a few expats here, at least 40 by the two sheets of names i was able to see and both my company and another well known ryanair subsidiary company were evenly represented There was also little well known company in asia with about 4 reps. I went with a mate and actually saw the date that our pro rata wages were paid to our contractor. Tell you what guys, if the company tells you that your wages are late due to Air Sahara not paying them then i can tell you now that your contractor is bull ****eing you. Mind you after saying this i only saw my mates and my statements, so if we are the only ones who got paid while we were travelling bisiness class to Delhi then we must indeed be special. The contractors are paid ahead of the due date. I even saw the two names that speedy said had resigned, one was indeed our german 76 skipper and another that sounded like a south american or filipino name, not too sure but i know that he was represented by the least well known of the three contractors.
The drive there and back was interesting and Kaptain M you would most definately feel at home here, the driving was truly ala phillipines like with 5 cars to a 3 lane motorway, the honking of the car horns ...wow and after countless near accidents i never heard our driver swear once. A colleague remarked that the rest of the world could learn from the locals on how to drive and not swear etc etc...Paitence? Took an hour to get there and another hour plus to get back. My foot now hurts from all the reflex braking i was doing.
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Coco-nuts, I am happy for you that things are working out. I will tell you that I never really got to the bottom line on whether the agency or Air Sahara ws lying in regards to payment. One blames the other. I will say that sahara would be good if they were not so disorganized. If you don't see it now trust me you WILL! Myself, I hated it there. You may see alot of expats on the list and I think I know the one your talking about but they are not all there. You will be working 6 days a week and never know what your doing until the end of the day for the most part. A year is a long time do spend at the grand hyatt. Unless your a yogi master you will in time come to understand what I mean. Good luck and what ever you do don't do any favors for sahara, it will never be paid back!!
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coco-nuts you have the right attitude to survive in India. Enjoy your stay and the rich experience you and your family will certainly have. I don`t particularly care to work in that part of the globe. There`s too much deception and back room drama practiced. Most of what is said up front is hardly practiced. Get taken for a ride on almost anything and everything. If someone is overly kind, watch out, he`s about to skin you!!!
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There`s too much deception and back room drama practiced. Most of what is said up front is hardly practiced. Get taken for a ride on almost anything and everything. If someone is overly kind, watch out, he`s about to skin you!!!
Watergate - Ah that was something else!!!!
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Spoke to a very experienced expat examiner who works with Kingfisher. He says that with regards to organisation his company is the same. His roster is told to him the previous night. I dont know about the other companies so i wont quote what the rosters are like there, but he says maybe Jet has a better rostering system however dont bet on it too much. It sounds like the guys in rostering are very disorganised and maybe should be given a software program to meet the demands of modern day crewing.
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C'nuts,
Glad to see you've finally made the move. The l/h seat must be looming.
Always remember though, as an expat, you are the first in the firing line, and that you are there as a localisation process. There are no loyalties!!!!
I conceive you are in the honeymoon phase, and haven't been tested yet.
Enjoy your ochroid monsoon season while it lasts.
I hope this will be a favourable stepping stone to greener pastures.
Glad to see you've finally made the move. The l/h seat must be looming.
Always remember though, as an expat, you are the first in the firing line, and that you are there as a localisation process. There are no loyalties!!!!
I conceive you are in the honeymoon phase, and haven't been tested yet.
Enjoy your ochroid monsoon season while it lasts.
I hope this will be a favourable stepping stone to greener pastures.
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Ok guys and gals I'm closing this thread now as we have another, "Indian Aviation Booming & Shara/Jet(Merged)" running which appears to show the latest information re the Air Sahara buy out by Jet Aviation etc. and you can continue to post there please, this avoids duplication, thanks, BE.
