Pilot Jobs in Thailand

[ZXT]

Originally Posted by krismiler

If you want to work there try a foreign owned low cost such as Thai Vietjet, Thai AirAsia, or Thai Lion Air. They would want experienced Pilots due to quick expansion and lack of locals who can afford to pay for their own training.

Thai Airways would be the first choice for ex military and self funded, probably not an option for foreigners.

If you did a search you might choose not to apply to Orient Thai or Asia Atlantic after reading the threads on them.

​​​​​Hello,

I'm a dual national of the UK and Thailand, but UK resident, and English is my first language.
I just wondered if my other passport might create some options for me finding work in Asian countries?

I am still at school, in my GCSE year, but I have done some flying, and am an air cadet. I
want to try and work out the best way to try and train to be a pilot.
At the moment, it looks like my best chance is to try and join the RAF as a pilot, and then maybe later get a chance to fly commercial jets, e.g.: for Thai airways or another airline that flies there.
My parents aren't able to help me with cost of training.

Please can someone give me some advice?

Thank you.

[iggy]

I only know of TG having a cadet program ab initio but I don't know who has to pay for the cost of the initial license. What I do know is that they will not look with good eyes to any Thai passport holder who is not fluent in Thai, spoken and written. It is still a government airline and contacts are still required to get in, contacts that most probably you won't have after being for so long out of Thailand (I'm assuming you have been raised in the UK). The rest of the airlines won't care as long as you have a local passport and license so they don't have to deal with work permits and validations.

If the cost is what worries you try to contact the flight schools in Hua Hin and Nakhon Pathom and ask for prices. Maybe it is something you could pay while working in Thailand as cabin crew for one of the local airlines, at the same time you could be doing the required networking to eventually land your first job, I know of several Thai pilots who started as cc.

I'm not British but the RAF path looks long and risky. Europe is always going up and down.

[ZXT]

Originally Posted by iggy

I only know of TG having a cadet program ab initio but I don't know who has to pay for the cost of the initial license. What I do know is that they will not look with good eyes to any Thai passport holder who is not fluent in Thai, spoken and written. It is still a government airline and contacts are still required to get in, contacts that most probably you won't have after being for so long out of Thailand (I'm assuming you have been raised in the UK). The rest of the airlines won't care as long as you have a local passport and license so they don't have to deal with work permits and validations.

If the cost is what worries you try to contact the flight schools in Hua Hin and Nakhon Pathom and ask for prices. Maybe it is something you could pay while working in Thailand as cabin crew for one of the local airlines, at the same time you could be doing the required networking to eventually land your first job, I know of several Thai pilots who started as cc.

I'm not British but the RAF path looks long and risky. Europe is always going up and down.

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I'm basically British, you probably wouldn't even know I was half-asian if you met me, so I expect I'd be treated as a foreigner, apart from pp/id, which I can show when needed. I wouldn't go down the RAF path just to get to be a commercial pilot, only if it was interesting as a job on its own. The pay and conditions look interesting though.
I guess I'm going to have to look at another career (and I have good options), and collect training along the way depending on how much I can make, and hope that it pays off.