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Old 16th November 2013 | 11:35
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Hi

I am looking for information about Volotea.

How is the roster like, what type of contract they have and how is the salary.

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Old 16th November 2013 | 19:40
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The salary is the worst I've seen since a long time!
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Old 17th November 2013 | 07:46
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Can you give more details?
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Old 17th November 2013 | 12:27
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Spanish will be a must too.
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Old 19th November 2013 | 23:04
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Spanish will be a must too.
This is not true, they prefer spanish, french or italian speaking (due to their bases location) but it's not a mandatory requirement.
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Old 11th October 2014 | 10:12
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Hey,

I'd like to have some info regarding this nice little company operating the B717.
They are currently recruiting cadets, FOs and Capt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-nJveX6ppQ
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Old 11th October 2014 | 10:48
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great!
can anyone tell me the price to get in ?

thanks
PS: i don't care about salary, I just want to fly...

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Old 11th October 2014 | 13:29
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Perhaps good for enhancing your own flying skills as you gain experience, but the 717 is a useless type rating. No doubt Volotea is an interesting niche airline but an absolute bottom feeder for pay, etc. I think even Vueling pay better and at least you get an A320 type rating out of it if you going to go that route. The race to the bottom continues!
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Old 11th October 2014 | 16:33
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Don't know about salary but the B717 is a fantastic aircraft, jet and fully glass cockpit. Is the Dash8 better type rating? Is the A300 any better? What about the Fokker 100 or CRJ?
Anyways, if you want to join Emirates, do you think having an A320 or B737 rating will be better? Of course not.
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Old 11th October 2014 | 18:55
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well I know some ex Ba cityflyers and ex Cityjet flying for Emirates and Qatar with no Airbus/Boeing hours, but anyways, the B717 is a Boeing aircraft, probably more modern than a B737-300/400.
Training at Emirates is simple: just learn by heart your SOPs and learn how to engage and disengage your Autopilot passing 100 feet AAL.
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Old 11th October 2014 | 20:40
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The Boeing 717 was designed by McDonnell Douglas as the MD95. It became a Boeing after the two manufacturers merged.
They only built 156 of them, and stopped building them about 2006.

So basically .. it's not a Boeing, and it looks like a B717 rating would be of limited value.
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Old 11th October 2014 | 23:51
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...age discrimination anyone?!? "Funny" restrictions for an European airline,to advertise it openly like that...
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Old 12th October 2014 | 08:11
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Emirates shorten the 777 training for 717 rated pilots.
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Old 12th October 2014 | 09:11
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I think this guy with a moustache on the video above was the head of training manager at Vueling.
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Old 13th October 2014 | 12:31
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How is the recruiting process?
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Old 13th October 2014 | 16:39
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Guys with B737 hours are likely to go to B777 with EK, airbus guys tend to go to A330/340/380. Just a matter of reducing the risk of failure during the training.
Rubbish. Few months back, I had lunch in Doha with a former student of mine who had spent the last 4 years on a small Nintendojet in Asia and went straight to a B777 TR with QA. How about that? Stop speculating on "which type", it is likely to drag you into the P2F/SSTR dungeon!
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Old 14th October 2014 | 11:41
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It is not about type, it is about how much you can pay.
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Old 14th October 2014 | 12:17
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And how much are they charging for this 'job'?
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Old 14th October 2014 | 15:59
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that's what I asked since the begining but no one dares to say it I guess.
Actually, this is THE question.
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Old 14th October 2014 | 21:48
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26000€ for the TR, and 900-1000€/monthly pay
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