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QR is hiring DEC 777.
Just apply and you will get a chance.
EY will be hiring DEC again in 2010 (end).
ME airlines are not too bad to work for, AND they are not too far away from home.
On the side:
You can join the 777 stunt team, together with the ex CX Low flying display pilot and the ex AF Concorde jetjock.....Will be fun!
Just apply and you will get a chance.
EY will be hiring DEC again in 2010 (end).
ME airlines are not too bad to work for, AND they are not too far away from home.
On the side:
You can join the 777 stunt team, together with the ex CX Low flying display pilot and the ex AF Concorde jetjock.....Will be fun!
Like anyone I can only wish you the best of luck securing a new job.
I cannot understand what led you to throw away a BA 777 LHS job though. Especially given the economic climate at the time. You had the correct seat, fleet and company for the current situation yet took a years salary redundancy to give it up?
Don't feel you need to defend yourself but I'm curious and so are many others as to why you binned BA.
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I cannot understand what led you to throw away a BA 777 LHS job though. Especially given the economic climate at the time. You had the correct seat, fleet and company for the current situation yet took a years salary redundancy to give it up?
Don't feel you need to defend yourself but I'm curious and so are many others as to why you binned BA.
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Like WWW I think it is a decision that in time he will regret making.
He will I suspect be spending far more time with his family in the years ahead.
If he had got that job with Korean he would have spent months away during training and then would have to commute monthly back to UK for days off.He would be far worse off than when in BA for time with his family.
With any Middle East airline he would have to be based there so he would have to drag his young family to the desert, perhaps on an F/O's salary.
I suspect also and I hope I am wrong in this but his "notoriety" for want of a better word will follow him wherever he goes. Just look at Pablo Mason as an example.
Expat airlines want quiet pilots with no "form" whether good or bad and will hate the publicity which will follow this individual.
Talk of writing a book and after dinner speeches will be the kiss of death and should only be contemplated when all hope of a flying job have disappeared.
It was as WWW said a strange decision from one presumably? with a secure position within BA during the worst downturn in aviation I have ever known.
Best of luck Mmmayday38 because you are certainly going to need it.
PS Big mistake saying a single word to the Press as you are now back in the news for all the wrong reasons.
He will I suspect be spending far more time with his family in the years ahead.
If he had got that job with Korean he would have spent months away during training and then would have to commute monthly back to UK for days off.He would be far worse off than when in BA for time with his family.
With any Middle East airline he would have to be based there so he would have to drag his young family to the desert, perhaps on an F/O's salary.
I suspect also and I hope I am wrong in this but his "notoriety" for want of a better word will follow him wherever he goes. Just look at Pablo Mason as an example.
Expat airlines want quiet pilots with no "form" whether good or bad and will hate the publicity which will follow this individual.
Talk of writing a book and after dinner speeches will be the kiss of death and should only be contemplated when all hope of a flying job have disappeared.
It was as WWW said a strange decision from one presumably? with a secure position within BA during the worst downturn in aviation I have ever known.
Best of luck Mmmayday38 because you are certainly going to need it.
PS Big mistake saying a single word to the Press as you are now back in the news for all the wrong reasons.
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What is the aim of the original poster?
Gloating with glee or does he/she simply belong to the same group of subspecies that feed on one's misfortune for own gratification?
A link would have sufficed to say the least.
Take a few months off, reclaim some of your paid taxes and in due course many doors shall fling open.
As for the reporter, the dss insider and the poster, sadly for them they will have to return to their miserable existences.
Best of luck Pete, not that you need it with especially with your background and experience.
Gloating with glee or does he/she simply belong to the same group of subspecies that feed on one's misfortune for own gratification?
A link would have sufficed to say the least.
Take a few months off, reclaim some of your paid taxes and in due course many doors shall fling open.
As for the reporter, the dss insider and the poster, sadly for them they will have to return to their miserable existences.
Best of luck Pete, not that you need it with especially with your background and experience.
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Yes, Peter, Best of Luck!
It was your right to accept or resist VR. It was your decision and you had every right to make it. My own view is that there were considerations other than financial for you to weigh-up at the time. No-one but you knows how your human and political working-environment changed after January 08.... and in any case it's none of our effing business! I don't know you and we've never met... but I'd hire you tomorrow! Good Luck 
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I didn't even know you could claim jobseeker's allowance if you had elected to take voluntary redundancy?
You learn something new every day.
Good luck with your job search. I hope it all works out for you.
You learn something new every day.
Good luck with your job search. I hope it all works out for you.
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There are a few ex BA guys at Ryanair. They're looking for DEC's at the moment (did you fly B737?) and have a lot of UK bases.
Good money, home every night. Like all jobs has it's ups and downs but I think you'll find DEC generally have a good deal in this economic climate.
Best of luck, tomorrows fish'n'chip wrappers and all that !
Good money, home every night. Like all jobs has it's ups and downs but I think you'll find DEC generally have a good deal in this economic climate.
Best of luck, tomorrows fish'n'chip wrappers and all that !
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Mmmayday38,
If you fancy a challenge have you thought about the AJX 76 gig in Japan. Its a bit of a commute, take a look in the far east forum. Also Air Asia, Turkey or Air India ??
Good luck
If you fancy a challenge have you thought about the AJX 76 gig in Japan. Its a bit of a commute, take a look in the far east forum. Also Air Asia, Turkey or Air India ??
Good luck
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cannot understand what led you to throw away a BA 777 LHS job though.
Like BoeingMEL says, the perrogative is yours and yours alone, presumably made for good reasons, so, all the very best for the future.
PPRuNe Handmaiden
We have an ex-BA captain at NJE. He did a couple of different things post BA and he's to be really happy with us.
He's enjoying the job again.
Peter, I haven't met you but if you were not enjoying yourself at BA, then you've done the right thing for yourself and your family.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
He's enjoying the job again.
Peter, I haven't met you but if you were not enjoying yourself at BA, then you've done the right thing for yourself and your family.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
Unless mmmayday38 feels like expanding on his decision then it will always seem like a curious decision to me.
There's no better paid or better rostered job in the airline world.
1 years salary in exchange for another 20 years salary looks meagre. Fine, if you're done with flying. Otherwise its just curious.
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There's no better paid or better rostered job in the airline world.
1 years salary in exchange for another 20 years salary looks meagre. Fine, if you're done with flying. Otherwise its just curious.
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Unless mmmayday38 feels like expanding on his decision then it will always seem like a curious decision to me.
She added that she hoped a book about the couple's experiences over the past 18 months would be finished by November or December.
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Unless mmmayday38 feels like expanding on his decision then it will always seem like a curious decision to me.
He will have good reasons for leaving and the extra cash of VR will make the decision sweeter.
Although the market is tight out there for jobs at the moment I'm sure a Captain with his wide experience will not have to wait too long. Korean Air's loss I would say.
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Well he might comment here as he has done so in the past.
I think it will take quite a while to find ANY direct entry captains job at the moment.
So, its a bit of a puzzle, but I'm sure he had his reasons and he has no need to justify himself here. Doesn't stop people pondering it all though..
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I think it will take quite a while to find ANY direct entry captains job at the moment.
So, its a bit of a puzzle, but I'm sure he had his reasons and he has no need to justify himself here. Doesn't stop people pondering it all though..
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There's no better paid or better rostered job in the airline world.
But what I don't understand is 900hrs/year at work is 900hrs no matter whether or not you have an unparalleled control over your roster and get paid some good wedge.
Some of us are still flying 500hrs/year.
De facto we get more time off even if it is not exactly when we want.
Granted, we might not be doing it for much longer but it behoves one to look over both shoulders on the odd occasion and reflect on ones own "good fortune". I'm sure Confucius had something to say about that...
Maybe he wants to join The Antarctic Survey and do some real flying?
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I don't know this time next year I think there will be more than a few that will be quite jealouse of him making the move when he did, if the current strife with BASSA comes to a head.
He has way more options available to him than most in a similar situation.
If he isn't a CRMI facilitator that would be the first thing I would get. Free lance with his experence, a couple of weeks work developing a course and you could make a fair bit of cash off it. Christ it would make a change from the tenerife video.
The after dinner circuit will make some money.
Emergency planning and post accident procedures there's another course.
Although he might not want to go down this line. What a breath of fresh air it would be to have him as the aviation expert for say the Times or BBC.
There will be someone somewhere reading this thread thinking hey we can do with that bloke. Personally I think he is going to be spoilt for choice.
He has way more options available to him than most in a similar situation.
If he isn't a CRMI facilitator that would be the first thing I would get. Free lance with his experence, a couple of weeks work developing a course and you could make a fair bit of cash off it. Christ it would make a change from the tenerife video.
The after dinner circuit will make some money.
Emergency planning and post accident procedures there's another course.
Although he might not want to go down this line. What a breath of fresh air it would be to have him as the aviation expert for say the Times or BBC.
There will be someone somewhere reading this thread thinking hey we can do with that bloke. Personally I think he is going to be spoilt for choice.