Turkish Airlines Seeking Captains.
 

For the fırst tıme in history, Turkish Airlines is looking to hire Captains who are qualified in B737NG or A319/20/21.

You can apply on the Turkish Airlines web site:


- 8000 h total time
- 3000 h in cmd as Captain on B737NG or A319/20/21
- 4000 h Multi Crew, multi eng. jet MTOW 50 tonnes or greater

etc.....

..and work 900 hrs a year for all the Turkish Lira you can carry home in your wheelbarrow? (equivalent to about EU 12k a year no doubt...):E

Turkish Airlines Seeking Captains.
 

You should talk about the things you know. This is not a forum for B.S.
1Turkish lira= 1.5 USD=2.10 Euro.
And the captains pay about 8000 USD. By the way THY just received it's 127 th airplane.

Are these year-to-year contracts or are they full-time employment opportunities (i.e., hire to retire)? I doubt the many Turkish FOs would be happy about this... How did this deficit of qualified commanders come about? Attrition issues?

Dear Noelbaba

Let's keep things in the correct order please:

1 EURO = 2,1 new Turkish Lire, not the other way around!!!

for which bases are they recruiting and does anyone atually know the salaries ?

The base will be IST. I do not have the details, however the pay will be no less than $9000 (net) / month + benefits.

TK is one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe (127 A/C + the big order will be announced in the next couple of months).

Besides the on-line application does anyone have an email address, name of Chief-Pilot or other contact for their Flight Operations.
Thanks.

Contact details
 

If anybody is willing to share further contact details at THY Flt Ops, besides the on-line application form, pls send me a PM.
Tnx a lot!
Swish266
:ok:

Dec. 31st 2008 did the trick!

3,000 hours PIC on type! I don't think I've ever seen a PIC on type requirement that high before! Even the likes of Emirates and Singapore Airlines ask for 3,000 PIC on jets but most airlines ask for only 500 or occasionally 1,000 on type. 3,000 is just plain silly...

3,000 hrs PIC.........They only want the best!
Ist is a great city to live in and work from.
The only caution in my experience is that when TALPA (their BALPA) get a bit xenophobic, they put pressure on the Turkish DCA not to renew foreign pilot validations. This is always resolved eventually, but most frustrating at the time.

Carefully!!!

I wouldn't apply at TK.

Why? Things can go very fast in turkey and maybe in a direction which may not be your desire. They are treading non-turks like sheep. I have some friends living in turkey, married with a turkish wife, running a business there and so I know what I'm talking about. When a foreigner gets in their way it may get kind of rough.

NEVER EVER!

What makes you think that captains with 3000+ hours on type are better than those with less? More experienced, yes, but not necessarily better.

Dani

Hetfield
 

Sorry for being so skeptical and maybe cynical...but your post looks like something coming from a local affraid of a supposed expat pilot "invasion"...
No matter of what associations, unions etc think one fact is cristal clear: in today's environment, every airline in the world is driven by the word COSTS.

If there's a requeriment to quickly fill seats with experienced and type rated pilots, they will use the available surplus work force without hesitation...

I can assure this is not the case.

Fully agree with the rest of your post.

regards

Dear Het
 

Accept my apologies...

Istanbul
 

Brit currently living and working in Istanbul. Anyone looking for some info on the city and the aviation life here can drop me a pm.

James

@fullforward.

No problem;)

Have a nice day.

hetfield

Has anybody who applied heard anything subsequent to the automated acceptance of their application ? :confused:

I applied a month ago, no news yet.

Sheer silence so far.

Hello James,
I'd appeciate very much your comments concerning the way of life in Istambul and besides that, any tips about the best way to follow up my application process, how to contact ops etc.
Thanks for your attention!
Kindest regards,
Dcsagcs

Can anybody who attended the Sim assesment/interview today give us a heads-up on what is involved.

I ,and no doubt many others, would be very grateful, thanks. :ok:

Turkish Airllines hiring.!!!
 

Hi,,,I would like to give you some information regarding recruitment of Turkish,,,

Salary around 5500 Euro, before tax,and think about re taxation in Your domicile,, Approx flight time per month 90 hours,, no extra pay over certain hour,,

You need to have 4 year University graduate!)) Seriously,!?,..
3000 hours on Type..!))
In Turkey 1 liter of gasoline around 2 Euro,,
Rent for an apartment without furniture around 1000 euro,,
You need a Car to go to work,
You can hardly get off days in a line,
Interline agreement unknown for foreigners,,
for your kids school fee incredibly expensive,
And much more,,
Company dont have recruiting experience for expats,, IF You called by them, I bet it would be one day ago they will inform you for an interview and you will be paying your roundtrip ticket and also accomodition, my advise who go there for an interview ask this questions and demand answers,,Good luck,,

5500 BEFORE TAX ? OUCH :}

A previous poster suggested 9000USD NET (7000e AFTER tax )plus benefits, anybody else who has attended can confirm or deny this ? that sounds a "little" :rolleyes: light for a flag carrier hoping to attract experienced guys on a 2yr contract.
On their website application there is no mention of 4yr university degree, where has that come from ? thought that was only for Cadet pilots ?

useful link on Turkish tax including income tax:

Property related Taxes and compulsory insurance in Turkey

While I sympathise with the comments on salary, do you think THY will pay more for expat pilots? That would cause massive IR issues in the airline and open a can of worms. What would you like to benchmark it against, anyway - BA? Air France? How much do you think flag carriers outside the EU pay?

Given todays events maybe not the best time for them to consider it, but. . . . a recently offered contract job ( & I believe this Turkish job is a 2yr contract only) was paying approx 8250e before tax for a 75block hour month, with accomodation provided and every likelihood of flying overtime at a pro -rata rate. This would be well in excess of what the local permanent pilots were taking home due to the tax regime in the country concerned.
The market may be moribund at the moment, but the benchmark is the market rate, not what the locals are stuck with. If it is 5500e before tax they will have takers, but they will be out of there PDQ if/when the market picks up. If they want to accept the hassle of re-training every few months no problem, but if they want people to complete a 2yr contract they will have to raise the bar above that, unless we really are in for 2 more years of this sh1t that we have now.

xboxdriver you are very negative on THY..why is that ?? have you been there ?? do you know any of this as a fact ?? 5500 euro i.e. ?? bacause you definately dont know the rest as facts..they DO pay your fare to ist, they DO pay you hotel and they ARE nice folks..so whats up with you ??

best

Can some of us please just get over the fact that other countries don't pay the same rates as European airlines? No, it doesn't make you sound knowledgeable when you say it won't pay an F/Os salary - it's the same rate as some airlines pay Captains within Europe. Turkey can get work visas for any nationality if they can justify the need, so I assume they will get over the fact that you think it isn't enough. Incidentally, I suspect a good number of your European colleagues who have been laid off will also apply for it given it's much closer to home and in some cases far more civilised for the same money than many of the countries they are contemplating at the minute.

Hetfield
You say you know what you write? I don't think so. I have two homes in Turkey and a business and there are no problems other than the usual government hassle. I got that in England and the U.S. so it isn't anything out of the ordinary. As for the Turks in general, you will never find a more engaging people. I flew for Luthansa, live in Germany and England so I DO know of what I speak.If I was not turning 65 tomorrow, I would love to work for THY.

Congratulations! <fanfare>

peterplilot 07 ,I have just wrtitten the facts,,if u are interested go ahead and enjoy working for THY. Its a beautiful country and people .Possibly after the accident they might even increase the pay.I have no interest to work for THY as A Captain. Because my aviation culture does not match theirs even though I speak the language!))THY one of the Unique Airline of the world ,aprrox 85 percent ex military 15 percent civilian,this proportion was 100 percent no longer then 8 years ago.I know some people who went there with short notice. they called me after interview thats how I know..!Totally ,approximately 100 captains applied, they decided to ask 4 years university degree during first group interview,after the numbers dropped down to around 25.And they have been called last minute and havent paid for tickets and hotel.Only info given to them is they will be paid the same as THY Captain.The 737 and 320 Captains gets around 11000 to 13000 Turkish Lira with overtime..If some body had been paid for ticket and accomodation possibly they decided after a lot of complaints . In THY there are 2 years Univ. graduate First officers who they had been by passed for their Captain upgrade because of they dont have 4 years degree.They are waiting to react if any body given job who doesnt have 4 years degree!!! I suggest to you go to THY crash site read the threads carefully,maybe u can understand their Aviation Culture and more,Those had been written by some other pruners correct observation!U might find useful Good luck..:D

I guess it is totally out of order of me to query whether 8, 12 (or indeed zero ) years collective university time makes a difference to todays initial analysis of crew awareness /actions in AMS. :*

catplaystation - the more I read your posts, the more I find myself agreeing with you.

For those interested in some fascinating facts about Turkish Airlines read: http://www.jacdec.de/info/2009-02-25_TC-JGE.pdf

The most interesting statistic in there is that this is the 22nd hull loss this airline has experienced. I do not know how bad a safety record you must have to be regarded as 'unsafe', but this does not seem to be too great a record to me. This company has some serious changes due, and the tragic events in Amsterdam just highlight the scale of the problem. As one who is both ex-military and has a 4-year degree, I can say with absolute certainty that neither of these features should have any bearing on recruitment decisions. I also think that any airline that has an 85% ex-military contingent needs to radically change how it recruits. No doubt the revelations of the next few weeks will give us all food for thought.

It all depends whether they swallow" the food " or spit it out. That will be the acid test of whether any improvement is likely. :hmm:
Going back to recruitment, anybody heard anything since the accident, my contact dried up ( perhaps not surprisingly as they didn't seem too organised before all this ) & it sounds like decisions have been put on hold.
In particular does anyone have definitive info concerning what was on offer, as the info I received was that (amazingly ) it wasn't confirmed at interview how much they were proposing.

turkish pilots
 

I agree that many pundits think ex-mil crew are not as good as ab-initio commercially trained ones.
But never forget that the back bone of most legacy carriers were ex-mil, fighter and bomber pilots.
For the record: some first-hand experience, albeit from 25 years ago...
During the last part of the Cold War (mid-80') there were a lot of skirmishes over the Black Sea between Warpac and NATO pilots. By common understanding among Eastern bloc pilots, the best NATO pilots were the Turks, better than even the Germans and far better than any American.
They flew inferior equipment (F-4/F-5s) against MiG-29s... As far as I can remember they only had the F-16 operational about '86.
:ok:

The last accidents concerning Turkish airlines and a few charters there does not say a whole lot about basic airman ship.
The latest a ex military one at the controls.
There is a thread here on pprune , I think from sun express or something close to that that covers this quite well.
Comparing the Turkish military to others is not a good thing here.

With the greatest respect, the skills and mindset required to be a great military pilot, do not "always" equate to the CRM & mindset required to be a good Commander in a 2 crew aircraft performing what are often boring repetitive tasks.
Countries with predominantly ex military pilots as their Capt's unfortunately do not seem to excel in safety statistics, with many incidents being ascribed to poor CRM ( think here of Korea, Turkey etc )