Britair Asks Pilots if They Want to Work in Indonesia
 

AFP, 22/08/12 ...Regional French airline Britair, under pressure to reduce its workforce, is asking pilots if they want to work temporarily in Indonesia, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

“We are consulting pilots to see if they are interested before possibly looking into missions with Garuda,” the Indonesian flag carrier, the spokeswoman said. “We are still at the project stage.”

Garuda, which is to take delivery of 100-seat CRJ1000 regional aircraft built by the Canadian company Bombardier, needs pilots trained to fly them and has spoken with carriers that might be able to help.

Britair, which is owned by the Air France-KLM group, is one such airline.

The parent group has launched a deep restructuring program and seeks to eliminate 5,000 positions, including 450 pilots jobs, without firing anyone if possible.

Indonesia is comprised of thousands of inhabited islands and its economy is growing, making for a marked increase in air travel.

But the country is also rated category 2 on the International Aviation Safety Assessments Program established by the US Federal Aviation Administration, which means it does not meet standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

No. ( brakets added as my answer was too short)

Why not do it for a year or two if offered the right package and the guaranteed ability to return with same seniority, etc? Hope that is the case. Would be good to get out of depressing Europe for awhile and expand your cultural horizons...

Have an ex colleague who did a 6mth contract . . .with Garuda (so delete the parts attributable to working for them)

No SOP, No CRM (OK if you are all Britair/ not flying with "locals" forget that) WX cr@p/impossible (really) to fly the programme without the odd CB encounter. Health issues ( severe tummy probs & even worse, parasites "acquired" in hotel swimming pool which if left untreated could have resulted in cancerous lesions) Very long transfer to/from airport-city in crazy traffic resulting in. . pollution (exposure to) . . .a general problem in Jakarta.
Domestic flights wer operated into fairly "inadequate" airports with "imaginative" approaches & terrain that certainly wakenend the imagination ! ! :eek: My colleague had only one period of 1 week off, during which he went Scuba Diving to the best place he ever visited in his life, that "nearly compensated for the rest of the 6mths he spent there.

Be very careful in the "detail" of your contract mes amis.