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Old 25th Jul 2017, 16:32
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No worries, folks, it seems they are no longer looking for captains and F/Os for the 787 fleet.
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Old 25th Jul 2017, 23:06
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Originally Posted by jetjockey696
You need to be pretty rich to join this family.. first you need to pay for interview (airline ticket, hotel, etc etc), then the medical, conversion of your license, bond for 5 yrs and 50% of overpriced typerating etc.

I think I be outpocket just by getting to Singapore, expensive country..

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" Recruitment Process:
1. Pre-Assessment (Video Interview & Online Aptitude Test)
2. Assessment Day (for selected candidates)
3. SIM / Medical / Conversion of Licence / Work Pass application (for selected candidates)

Assessment will take half a day. SIM & Medical dates will be arranged within 4 days following the assessment. Candidates are required to submit their conversion of licence application form personally to CAAS, with the required supporting documents & all original logbooks.

Please note Scoot will not bear the following costs:
- Air ticket, accommodation & miscellaneous incidentals (E.g. Taxi fares / Meals / Excess Baggage charge). We do provide linkups for corporate hotel rates upon request.
- Medical checkup fees.
- Conversion of Licence application fee S$345 (Visa / Master) to CAAS
- CAAS mandatory exam fees
- Relocation to Singapore upon accepting Scoot's Offer
- Depedant pass application / renewal (if applicable)


Scoot's contract & Training bond (Non B777-rated pilot):

-Scoot’s contract/offer letter is an initial term of 5 years.
- Where you’re not B777 rated, the Company will grant a loan of S$33,000 to you in respect of 50% of S$66,000 licence conversion cost.
- You are required to secure a surety / banker’s guarantee for a training bond of S$57,000 (Captain) / S$47,000 (First Officer).

Who can act as your surety (Guarantor):
- Above 21 years of age
- Singaporean/Singapore Permanent Resident/Singapore Employment Pass Holder
- Gainfully employed
- Have not been a party to an existing training bond agreement - Am not a bankrupt
- Cannot be a fellow Scoot employee

How do I know if I am rated and if I can fall under 'Partial Conversion'?
Pilots who are B747 rated will be allowed to go through partial conversion.

What do you get for the effort you put in:
Gross monthly Salary would include:
- Basic Salary
- Productivity Incentive
- Transport allowance
- Per Diem allowance (payout as per IRAS guidelines)
- *performance bonus (As per Management's discretion)

The extent of your tax liability will depend on your tax residency status. Scoot's Benefits:
- Hospitalisation and Surgical Insurance
- 28 days of annual leave per financial year
- 14 days of sick leave per financial year
- 60 days of hospitalization leave (including sick leave) per financial year -

Flexi-Benefit Scheme
- Staff Travel Benefits .. on there NETWORK ONLY"
So going to the interview is all at your expense. Converting your license is all your expense. Plus the previously mentioned $450 for psychometric testing. Then you have to pay for a type rating and be bonded to the tune of $57,000? Ha, they must really be getting quality pilots. Anyone who touches this must be mentally deficient, desperate and untouched by any other halfway decent airline.
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Old 28th Jul 2017, 05:59
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"onesixty2four:Anyone who touches this must be mentally deficient, desperate and untouched by any other halfway decent airline."

Each place has its shortcomings and no place is perfect.If you think by accepting the terms and conditions one is selling oneself,then everyone has to fly only for BA /lufthansa.

South east asia has its minus points in terms of airline employment but on the other hand would you prefer to fly in Riyadh and have the airline take care of all costs?
These are individual decisions people make based on their lifestyle and requirements.
Sure Vietjet pays for all screening costs and then the circus starts after employment.

So I presume you made the statement about mental deficiency without any facts.
Cause I have seen FAR EAST/middle east and south east.
Nothing is what it seems and some give here ,some take there...in the end there are legendary carriers who still respect the profession like Qantas/BA/Lufthansa and then the rest, you are just a Glorified bus driver.

Times are changing and we need to understand that.
If you feel so strongly about it,why are you not getting into management or at least forcing airline managements worldwide to stop charging POOR Mr.FO to pay for their training?
Criticism and action are two different things
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Old 29th Jul 2017, 01:17
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I cannot believe that a pilot would write to defend Scoots terms.
Shame !!
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Old 29th Jul 2017, 01:32
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Originally Posted by waffler
I cannot believe that a pilot would write to defend Scoots terms.
Shame !!
It is your inability to understand what I have written is the shame.
Do not post something without understanding.
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Originally Posted by ikon757
"onesixty2four:Anyone who touches this must be mentally deficient, desperate and untouched by any other halfway decent airline."

Each place has its shortcomings and no place is perfect.If you think by accepting the terms and conditions one is selling oneself,then everyone has to fly only for BA /lufthansa.

South east asia has its minus points in terms of airline employment but on the other hand would you prefer to fly in Riyadh and have the airline take care of all costs?
These are individual decisions people make based on their lifestyle and requirements.
Sure Vietjet pays for all screening costs and then the circus starts after employment.

So I presume you made the statement about mental deficiency without any facts.
Cause I have seen FAR EAST/middle east and south east.
Nothing is what it seems and some give here ,some take there...in the end there are legendary carriers who still respect the profession like Qantas/BA/Lufthansa and then the rest, you are just a Glorified bus driver.

Times are changing and we need to understand that.
If you feel so strongly about it,why are you not getting into management or at least forcing airline managements worldwide to stop charging POOR Mr.FO to pay for their training?
Criticism and action are two different things
I am currently in SE Asia, and have been in East Asia prior to that for a total of 10 years now. So......perhaps I do know what I'm talking about. And guess what? I haven't had to pay for a damn thing since my MEIR over 25 years ago. Even when I recently changed types. The company in that case wanted me to self sponsor - I said no thanks. A week later they got in touch to say they'd fund it all.

As I have said before, have some respect for yourself and your license.

"Times are changing and we need to understand that". The usual copout from someone who knows his/her selfish actions are undermining the hard work of others in a desperate attempt to get ahead of their experience/skills level.

BTW, I do feel strongly about it because I can see in another decade or so this sort of behaviour will lead to pilots working max hours for very little pay and I feel sorry for the true professionals who are honestly trying to make their way through without getting an a33reaming. But I'll be out of it by then as I am making good money on a realistic schedule and have plenty stashed away because the generation before me wasn't as narcissistic and self centred as the current "command by 30 at all costs" brigade. Good luck with that.
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Old 29th Jul 2017, 08:03
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Originally Posted by Onesixty2four
I am currently in SE Asia, and have been in East Asia prior to that for a total of 10 years now. So......perhaps I do know what I'm talking about. And guess what? I haven't had to pay for a damn thing since my MEIR over 25 years ago. Even when I recently changed types. The company in that case wanted me to self sponsor - I said no thanks. A week later they got in touch to say they'd fund it all.

As I have said before, have some respect for yourself and your license.

"Times are changing and we need to understand that". The usual copout from someone who knows his/her selfish actions are undermining the hard work of others in a desperate attempt to get ahead of their experience/skills level.

BTW, I do feel strongly about it because I can see in another decade or so this sort of behaviour will lead to pilots working max hours for very little pay and I feel sorry for the true professionals who are honestly trying to make their way through without getting an a33reaming. But I'll be out of it by then as I am making good money on a realistic schedule and have plenty stashed away because the generation before me wasn't as narcissistic and self centred as the current "command by 30 at all costs" brigade. Good luck with that.

Onesixty2four

If you felt strongly about it,you would not work for these companies as a mark of protest.
You did not and will not cause as you said it "Making good money".
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Originally Posted by Onesixty2four
I am currently in SE Asia, and have been in East Asia prior to that for a total of 10 years now. So......perhaps I do know what I'm talking about. And guess what? I haven't had to pay for a damn thing since my MEIR over 25 years ago. Even when I recently changed types. The company in that case wanted me to self sponsor - I said no thanks. A week later they got in touch to say they'd fund it all.

As I have said before, have some respect for yourself and your license.

"Times are changing and we need to understand that". The usual copout from someone who knows his/her selfish actions are undermining the hard work of others in a desperate attempt to get ahead of their experience/skills level.

BTW, I do feel strongly about it because I can see in another decade or so this sort of behaviour will lead to pilots working max hours for very little pay and I feel sorry for the true professionals who are honestly trying to make their way through without getting an a33reaming. But I'll be out of it by then as I am making good money on a realistic schedule and have plenty stashed away because the generation before me wasn't as narcissistic and self centred as the current "command by 30 at all costs" brigade. Good luck with that.

Onesixty2four

If you felt strongly about it,you would not work for these companies as a mark of protest.Besides we all know what good that would do.

You did not and will not cause as you said it, "Making good money".

I have seen enough silence in the real world but ,hey the same lot will yell night and day on PPRUNE.
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Old 29th Jul 2017, 09:05
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Ikon , have you lost your mind ?

It's because of people like you that terms have fallen so much. The minute people stop paying and say NO to these conditions , things will revert back to the good old days pretty darn fast .

Don't give them a dime go elsewhere
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Old 29th Jul 2017, 14:56
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Originally Posted by ikon757
Onesixty2four

If you felt strongly about it,you would not work for these companies as a mark of protest.Besides we all know what good that would do.

You did not and will not cause as you said it, "Making good money".

I have seen enough silence in the real world but ,hey the same lot will yell night and day on PPRUNE.
Who said I worked for one of these companies? I certainly didn't, and I don't. I was making more than I am now on my last contract but walked out with 1 day's notice when they tried to scam me. I'm now with a company that respects me and vice-versa. That's how strongly I feel about it. Maybe if a few more people like you had the b#lls to follow that sort of lead there wouldn't be the ongoing erosion of T's & C's so apparent in this thread.

But hey! Keep bending over and taking it. By the time I'm out and relaxing you'll be sitting there on a fraction (in real terms) what I have made wondering where it all went wrong.
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Old 1st Aug 2017, 03:44
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IKON,
you're a mug with a brown nose.
....and remember to retract that landing gear coz paying all that money doesn't mean you and your mates over there have the nuts and bolts it takes to make a real pilot.
Go back to bending over mate.....
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Old 2nd Aug 2017, 07:36
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are they actually offering upgrades too senior first officers
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Old 2nd Aug 2017, 13:56
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Originally Posted by Top gun pilot 797
I am surprised that they let you have the TAC operating.
Would be a pleasure to watch a SE, raw data, non precision, TAC inop approach in low visibility.
Somehow I keep thinking of the blind horse pulling the cart with a wheel off.
On a narrow snaking wet and muddy mountainous pathway...
Hehehe.
So damned unreal !
Funny when I started we did this on almost every six month check.LOL
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Originally Posted by FlyingChipmunk
IKON,
you're a mug with a brown nose.
....and remember to retract that landing gear coz paying all that money doesn't mean you and your mates over there have the nuts and bolts it takes to make a real pilot.
Go back to bending over mate.....
It takes more then writing on pprune to be a real pilot mr chipmunk and besides you have already proven you are yet to come out of your skin colour allergy.Want to make a meaningful debate then write in such manner ,oh unless you could not afford a college education.,in that case I excuse your poor writing skills.hope you don't fly as bad.
I was in a south East Asian Airline when one of the EU nation folded up.
The nationals of that country we're offered an upgrade to P1 but we're being skinned to the bone for the upgrade.They we're 45 plus and clearly being taken advantage of.
Try listening to their personal plight (no job back home,no upgrade offer &in a reasonable time frame,,everyone had a story )
As a captain I could only offer sympathy but I certainly did not offer sarcastic comments because it was roses on my side of the field.
But then I already guessed your a pilot not a human.
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Originally Posted by filejw
Funny when I started we did this on almost every six month check.LOL
That's when real pilots flew the aircrafts. Now we are cockpit managers not allowed to turn off Flight directors on FBW aircraft.
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Old 18th Aug 2017, 06:25
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Originally Posted by Onesixty2four
I am currently in SE Asia, and have been in East Asia prior to that for a total of 10 years now. So......perhaps I do know what I'm talking about. And guess what? I haven't had to pay for a damn thing since my MEIR over 25 years ago. Even when I recently changed types. The company in that case wanted me to self sponsor - I said no thanks. A week later they got in touch to say they'd fund it all.

As I have said before, have some respect for yourself and your license.

"Times are changing and we need to understand that". The usual copout from someone who knows his/her selfish actions are undermining the hard work of others in a desperate attempt to get ahead of their experience/skills level.

BTW, I do feel strongly about it because I can see in another decade or so this sort of behaviour will lead to pilots working max hours for very little pay and I feel sorry for the true professionals who are honestly trying to make their way through without getting an a33reaming. But I'll be out of it by then as I am making good money on a realistic schedule and have plenty stashed away because the generation before me wasn't as narcissistic and self centred as the current "command by 30 at all costs" brigade. Good luck with that.

I second you 1624. Last I paid was for my FAA ME IR too. Pay to fly is not the way to go. Because of few pilots who are ready to sell themselves, the whole industry is getting to this tune. If everyone refuses to pay, where will they find pilots ? Off course bonding is a norm but not paying for type. In one of the airlines assessment I was even paid a handsome layover allowance ! How amazing.


At least Don't be desperate for your second airline job guys.
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Old 18th Aug 2017, 06:29
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Originally Posted by You rock
are they actually offering upgrades too senior first officers
Yes, 12 per year. But no seniority list. Case to case offer, the first guy to join as FO is still an FO.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy_SG
Yes, 12 per year. But no seniority list. Case to case offer, the first guy to join as FO is still an FO.
The first guy to join as FO still Fo? Any stats to back up? As I know FOs have been upgraded tp Capts...or are we missing something here?
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I don't have complete stats. Heard it from a guy who joined them during early days on 777. He is now a 787 capt. Probably command comes for the best.
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Old 19th Aug 2017, 06:43
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Originally Posted by Flyboy_SG
I don't have complete stats. Heard it from a guy who joined them during early days on 777. He is now a 787 capt. Probably command comes for the best.
He is right, the first FO in Scoot, Mr. "spiky hair", is still and FO and probably will always be, at least in Scoot. His chances were slim with former chief pilot, now with the new chief pilot and his gang probably no chance at all.

Command in Scoot does not necessarily comes for the best but for the closer to management, for instance, the flying skills of all the local guys that got promoted on first batch was more than questionable however they got the left seat based on political reason, promotion of local talent, if I remember correct.
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