Air Japan (AJX) B767

[GAMEOVER]

Air Japan

Hello and thanks for your post.

Air Japan (AJX) and ANA & JP Express (AJV) will merge and the merged company wiil be called AIR JAPAN.

ANA &JP Express (AJV) will then be dissolved. Pilots will operate both passenger and freighter flights.

What is your opinion about the following:

-The future to hire more pilots, more planes (in a short term, 1 ór 2 years)

BR.

[ishi59]

air Japan

Orientexpress, here are some answers

1. So far, the company has been reliable with its commiment to the upgrades. All f/o's have been upgraded within the first 5 year contract at Air Japan, with a very high success rate. There is a pre upgrade assessment, where a couple have been held back.

Expect 5 years to upgrade, any earlier is a bonus, some have done it in 3 but don't plan on that. The requirements are the same as required to join the company plus a certain time on line, I think 2 years.

as for the future, who knows, but there is a good track record to expect it will continue.

2. if you take the cash, you have to arrange transport yourself. Be aware with the "C" class commute. If you live near a city served by ANA, you will be sent on an ANA flight, no choice. If you live in the USA, the domestic sector from there will be on a code share flight, ECONOMY class, as business class "is not available" in the US. First is seen as above "C" class. Despite that, the "C" class commute is a winner and a big attraction.

3. I doubt it. 250 PIC requirement ????

4.Dream on!

5. No tax paid in Japan

6. No bond as far as I know.

[the good MD80]

Info

Hi Guys !!

Is anybody around working for PARC that can give an estimate about how long it takes from the moment the application was sent to the agency until the "invitation" for the interview came ?

Thanks to all of you who shared your great and valuable information in this pages.



Safe Flights

[ishi59]

orient express

1. Your tax questions are best answered by your tax consulatant. On planet earth, different countries have different tax laws. I'm not sure what the milky way laws are but I'm sure a local tax agent could answer them far better than an anonymous pilot on this board.

2. How much do you eat and drink. Tokyo can be expensive, a beer at a bar can cost 8$ or more. If you hide in your room, you can save a lot but the bills for therapy afterward may be high. Count on using up the full accomodation and per diem allowance. Any money saved, will then be a bonus.

3. up to now, the scheduling has been flexible. back to back has been done. The contract specifies tha company can roster 8 days off in a row minimum. This has not been done and they have always done 10 days. The present scheduler is VERY good and tries to accomodate all requests. What the future holds, who knows.

4.This is being revamped by the company but should provide a ticket to closest airport served by any airline near your home. ANA flights will be used as a priority to get you near but direct flights may be given if this makes tie commute too long. New guys in the office applying their interpretations of the rules

5.Generally all crews get on well. The Japanese pilots are very polite, respectful and mostly friendly. The biggest problems have been with non Japanese pilots.

Just be careful. The merger of the two operations could mean many changes, so the future may be very different to past experience. Better or worse, who knows.

[crj705]

Taxes have to be paid somewhere, and if they don't pay taxes in Japan on your behalf (as korean and vietnam do on their respective countries I believe) that means that you have no tax credit whatsoever and you are then liable for full taxes in you own country

That is not necessarily true. Tax law varies widely from country to country. It all depends on where you are from, where you are living, and how often you go back to that country.

In my instance, I am a US citizen who is now living in another Asian country. My first $91,000 is tax free and I have so many deductions that my tax liability is very low in the US. My current home does not require any taxes to be paid unless I earn income here or am here for more than 180 days a year, which I am not. And I have no tax liability in Japan because I am only there as a crew member on a shore pass.

Taxes are complicated and I would recommend seeking professional advice from someone in your home country.

[E165]

All f/o's have been upgraded within the first 5 year contract at Air Japan, with a very high success rate.

True and very fortunate, good on them, especially the 3-year newly upgrades. But just recently I believe 1 failed the JCAB check and 3 failed upgrade training (AJV/AJX) - all within about 2-3 months period. Not 100% sure, but heard in the rumor mill. Then again, this is a rumor network afterall.

[The Dominican]

But just recently I believe 1 failed the JCAB check and 3 failed upgrade training (AJV/AJX) - all within about 2-3 months period.

There have been no upgrade failures recently and I can't really think of anyone in the close to four years that I have been here that has gone for upgrade training and not made it, things like that leak out to the line pretty quickly and it is not that we are gossipy around here, I like to think of it as a very effective system of information gathering and redistribution. Now what you might be referring to and somehow have gotten twisted in the rumor mill is that several guys have been bypassed for upgrade due to the fact that they weren't ready or some guys in initial training that have not made it through, but not upgrade training.

[gaijin]

Well Dominican you are unfortunately not well informed! Recently one FO failed his command upgrade with the JCAB. Two others were not allowed to continue their training whilst at the simulator stage!
For those of you considering joining bear in mind that recently 4 guys have failed the type rating/ATPL. They were all experienced pilots, some with lots of 767 time.
Another little known fact is that PARC have just cancelled al the NCA pilots' contracts. They can sign a new one but this will mean a 10% cut in terms and conditions!!
If you want to work somewhere where your terms and conditions are likely to change at short notice, you could fail the initial training or subsequently fail the upgrade this is a great place to be. Not only that you get to live miles from home! Living the dream!

[The Dominican]

Thanks Gaijin, just heard about it so I stand corrected. Good guys too

[matador15]

NCA/PARC contracts

Terrible news regarding PARC contracts.. So the NCA guys
only have that 10% cut option? Any possibility that reduction
could be temporary ?

any other news/ updates regarding NCA ??

[tobagotb10]

Buenas, disculpe que te aborde de esta manera. Estoy trabajando en España y empiezo a preguntarme como seria trabajar en una nipona. Te importaría q re hiciese alguna que otra pregunta? Muchas gracias.
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[oldhasbeen]

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[retflyboy]

ANA: Pax svc HND-LAX, HNL, SIN, BKK

ANA to inaugurate 4 new int'l routes out of Haneda Airport in autumn - The Mainichi Daily News

Interesting potential development.

[FLYJET123]

ANA Application

Can anyone offer advice please. I applied for F/O position in Jan 2009 and was not successfull. I was a Cpt on B757 at the time but did not have the 3000 hrs jet PIC. I am now nearing the 3000PIC (all on B757), is it worth me applying for Cpts position? Do not know why I was not successful last time for F/O position.

[Gaijin Captain]

All you can do is apply again and make sure your paperwork is complete and accurate. This is very important.

[meguro]

I think ANA/V/X may be about done recruiting Captains, I don't knnow the current ratio, but it is profoundly unbalanced.
Traditionally, if you've been rejected previously, there's no second chance.

[Jetaim]

Hello

can anybody shed some light. I applied with Rishworth for an FO position with ANA in October 2009. For some reason I was not selected for the interview.
I met all requirements and I completed the application as accurate as I could given the fact that I flew in the States and in Europe with different rules for logging flight times and different log books.. I went trough all of them and I had to recalculate a lot trying to be as accurate as I could. It took a week or so.
Nevertheless that was a no go. I just wonder if it is so utterly important to go to the minute when you have thousands of hour on heavy jet with a major global operator and two ATPLs.
But will I be able to reapply or not ? I heard you have to let pass one year but I thought that was the case for those who did not pass the screening.
What about if you never got at that stage?
I'm very interested for a number of reasons but looks like I'm bouncing on a rubber wall. I tried to ask Crew Resource but I got no answer.

[The Dominican]

I just wonder if it is so utterly important to go to the minute when you have thousands of hour on heavy jet with a major global operator and two ATPLs.

First thing is to forget your logic, it doesn't apply. All the pilots that work here are experienced with thousands of hours and many decades in the business and we all had to do the proper homework with the logbooks, there is no way around it.

I applied with Rishworth for an FO position with ANA in October 2009. For some reason I was not selected for the interview.

Apply with CREW or PARC, they are more reputable agencies than Rishworthless

But will I be able to reapply or not ? I heard you have to let pass one year but I thought that was the case for those who did not pass the screening.

MEGURO is correct in the sense that typically they don't give a second interview if you busted the first (or your application was bounced for some reason) Now having said that, according to one of the recruiters the pool of qualified applicants is drying out with the markets getting better in the countries that typically supply expat pilots and the fact that a lot of the guys that are still looking are running into currency issues because if you are not current it is an uphill battle for sure.

Just apply and see what happens, if you get them interested please come back and report it since there are quite a few guys that will like to know the answer to that question

Good luck

[Jiraiya]

Hello guys new to the forum.

What are the possibilities of finding a job, that actually grants you a visa to live in Japan.

I'd rather have my family living there, then having to commute. Been in Japan and we loved it.

[Fratemate]

Very few possibilities and AJX/AJV is not one of them. The residents of Japan in our outfit are married to Japanese and live here by virtue of that. Try looking at the various agencies' websites to see what contracts are on offer.

PS: You've got to be mad if you'd want to live here