Malindo has called up 20 person freshies for 1st batch, should report in by end of January..

All FO's or Capt as well ?

This is for zero-hours DEFO only.. For rated pilot they have been approached earlier and now should be ready.. Just need to wait another 2 months..

how true is this?

those who been called up by malindo gonna sign their contract by earliest end of this month. :D :)

How true? One will never know.. That's the best part!

Malindo Airine
 

and with the recently announced opening of KLIA2 in June, Malindo can't start in April-May.

is malindo give an exact date for those they called?

Proving flight mid march. A group of about 50++ experience co pilot received email 2 weeks ago, asking them when can they join. About a quarter from Malaysia Airlines. Not sure if they take up the offer or not.

Malindo previously announce that they will start on March, from KLIA.. So opening date of KLIA2 wouldnt make any difference..

anyone get called from malindo for fresh cpl pilot?

PETALING JAYA: Malindo Air, which is gearing to launch its services in March after it secured the principle air services licence from the Government recently, has denied it is in any financial difficulty.

“There is no financial problem. In fact, our funding is intact as we have strong financial backing from our shareholders,'' its chief executive officer Chandran Ramamuthy told StarBiz.

He was responding to an OSK Research report that quoted rumours saying that Malindo's major shareholder National Aerospace and Defence Industries Sdn Bhd (Nadi) was reluctant to pour more capital into its joint venture (JV) with Indonesia's PT Lion Grup.

Malindo is 51% owned by Nadi and 49% by PT Lion Grup, the parent of Indonesia's privately-owned airline, Lion Air, which in turn controls about half of the Indonesia domestic air travel market.

Nadi main shareholder Tan Sri Ahmad Johan when contacted yesterday declined comment while Lion Air president director Rusdi Kirana, who is also part owner of PT Lion Grup, was not available for comment as he was travelling to the United States.

Financing has not been an issue for Lion Air, which is buying more than 300 aircraft, with most of them funded by export credit agencies.

Chandran said Malindo was in the midst of submitting its application for the air operator's licence and was in the final stages of hiring the first batch of pilots and cabin crew who will undergo training beginning February to prepare themselves for its launch.

The issue of any shareholder not wanting to pour in money for the airline to take off had not cropped up, said someone familiar with the new low-cost airline.

The OSK report also said that “.... due to the JV's limited capital, we gather that Malindo charges a fee for any new commercial pilot licence (CPL) holder with B737 NG-type rating who is interested to become pilots. Charges are estimated at US$30,000 for the first 500 hours, with no salary.''

Chandran clarified that it was an industry practice to charge pilots a fee when they underwent aircraft-type training.

Some airlines charge candidates for the training and others absorb it initially but later bond the candidates for several years and deduct their salaries, and in some cases, this is not made transparent.

“It is an arrangement with Malindo. Given the huge number of unemployed graduates and the fact that Malindo is offering jobs, even if it charges or offers loans, it is still helping to absorb the excess number of pilots in the country; so that should not be seen as an issue,'' said an industry observer

gowdamn pay to fly.. why ooh why.

hopefully they keep their jobs at a good salary after the conversion.

So whats the latest updates on the ab initios ? I heard ppl saying that they were asked if they could afford to pay for their own rating and they have totally no idea when the training would commence. Anyone mind so share some thoughts on this ?

bro did u get called from malindo two weeks ago?

Yes I did meteorain101 . Did you ? There weren't only 20 fresh grad pilots who got called up I reckon, as ive calculated that from the people I know already exceeded 10 .

yes but not sure whats going on

It has gone worse now. Someone agent asked close to $50,000 for A320 jobs for freshly rated newbies! N-U-T-S!

Allegedly, Lion Air's CEO is not happy with them after it was discovered that several (now unemployed) very senior pilots was close to making 1/2 million USD each out of the P2F.

I wonder if the situation in Malaysia is as bad as the above.

still no update on this anywhere...

Forgive being off-topic but isn't Najib and his corrupt bunch facing very stiff
competition from the opposition in the next federal election? If there was a
change of federal government would it be for the better including betterment
of local aviation?

The corruption is endemic (same in Nam when I was there, where the money
wends its way to the top and cronyism is rampant) - but is that a "political
culture" thing in Malaysia or strictly an UMNO thing? IOW what I'm asking is
would a change of Fed government engender old favors being called in which
would mean more of the same inept corrupt **** but with different faces?

I've followed the demise of MAS over the years and its absolutely sickening.
TFR and that Daim bloke should've been taken out the back and shot.