Cyprus Airways Pilot Recruitment
 

Anyone put in an application to Cyprus Airways recently? heard they were looking for A320 First Officers up until yesterday

100% Islander recruitment for about 30 positions. Plenty of guys who wanna come home. They wont have a problem.

Wheredid you hear that? They said they were accepting applications from any EU licence holder

A Cyprus (my) TRI about 48 hours ago. Yes, there's the official line then there's what really happens.

Did you bother to send an application in? Im half Greek Cypriot but UK passport holder, semi-fluent in Greek and rated with some hours so lets hope its not only for the islanders born there:(

Good luck... With Eurocypria folding last week there is a glut of qualified pilots on the island right now. It seems this may be for some time, most of the Cypriot pilots I know won't leave the island for work. Oh, and knowing a high ranking government official won't hurt...

I agree with the earlier post . The only other EU pilot that will get in will be Greek . The EU 'rules' do not apply in Cyprus apparently .

Well apparently there are 30 positions available. 20 going to the Eurocypria guys and then another 10 places for whovever. I agree there will be fierce competition for those few positions with a lot of meals and drinks being bought for anyone involved in the recruitment process. Just have to wait and see if those contacts Ive made over the years are of any use......

No one knows how many vacancies are there as of now.
They are currently assessing the situation and their needs for near future.
A few FO's will be upgraded to captains and few captains will be transfered to the A330 operations. How many of them? They dont know yet.

Eurocypria ex-employers have (unofficial) priority.
Then, dozens of type rated FOs who wanna come back home and jump on the line right away.
Then you have all those....."who-you-know" type fellows.
And then...theres the rest of us who shall "fight" in the "jungle". :8

Thats the way it is, either we like it or not.

Best of luck and you never know... :ok:

Its fine when this happens in a 100% private airline. The owners or shareholders of the airline can decide to hire who they want based on what they want. However when the taxpayers money is involved, people should demand a fair and square recruitment of, not only flight crew, but anyone in the airline. Id stay away from there, and id reccomend the same to anyone else who is not one of those "hooked up" people.. Complete waste of time.

Had anyone had a response from CY as of yet? I know they will be taking their time with this, but any updates would be great.....

From what i hear all recruitment has been suspended for the time being...but if a fairy godmother is not found soon,then there is a danger of a Eurocypria 2.Anybody with a basic knoweledge of maths will know that the future is not bright at CAL,even if it's sunny in Cyprus

Are you sure that recruitment has been postponed? I had a call about 3 days ago asking me to send them my license by fax

Hi Costas, are you rated on the A320? What are the chances of a Greek speaking Airbus rated pilot with experience but whol holds a British passport? I am half greek-Cypriot but was born in the UK. I sent them copies of all of my licences and other educational doucments when I applied. Efharisto.

Im Airbus rated. I don't think you will have a problem, there are alot of pilots working for cy airways who are greek cypriot and hold a british passport anyway. I'm not sure though if recuitment has been postponed, don't know if you can confirm this.:suspect:

I cant confirm much apart from a family friend in cyprus who is a Training captain for CY said that they were looking for around 30 FOs. 20 will come from the now defint Eurocypria and the other 10 will be selected as external candidates. There is meant to be a new A319 arrving in February so thats when they are looking for the selected people to start. I cant confirm any other details as yet. Hopefully there should be some news in January.

I hope they make it through the next year or so financially. Crew now on reduced allowances and less leave. I don't think the future is rosy for CY. The islands tourism sector is flagging, Ryanair have just started operating here competing on the BRU-LCA run and yesterdays paper said they were looking at chopping the Amman and Riyadh runs in addition to the Birmingham and PFO-LHR axed routes.

Anybody hear anything about the FO's openings?

Nothing here, but im in the UK. Did they get back to you after you sent your licence?

Nothing yet. I heard though from a friend who is in the Engineering dept that they are thinking of shrinking the fleet to about 7 or 8 aircarft so they can make a profit in 2011

Thats not good news:{ Oh well, will have to see what the new year holds now....

Nothing is for sure yet. Considering that I recieved the call last week, means that they might be still interested in getting extra crew., but you never know in the aviation business. Hopefully we will know for sure by January.

Well god luck with it, sound like you are already on their list so thats good news. I only know that they received my application by post before the deadline but have not heard anything else. Hopefully January will be a good month for us all:oh:

SW1, everything's on a stand-by mode.

I think they re waiting to see whats gonna happen with Eurocypria first, since a few investors appeared out of nowhere to bring the company back to life.
In case that happens, it would leave CY without lots of Russian and UK destinations, add the cancellation of Riyadh and Cairo operations ......= not many pilots needed.
If u want my opinion, they ll get a few (5-6) experienced type rated guys, but certainly not 30 newbies :(

Costas1979, whats ur experience?
norton, where did u get a job and when (if i may ask). :ok:

Good luck to everyone and keep positive!

Hi everybody, Has anybody heard anything about the recruitment?

And the latest axed route is PFO-STN. Things really aren't looking good for CY at present... This airline looks set to fail soon. There are now only two PFO originating routes, both of which look set to be cancelled within the forthcoming weeks. LCA routes being cut also, not good! The airline is also seeking interested parties to lease one of the A330's as CY no longer needs two of them.

And you really think they will recruit more pilots anytime soon...

If any would-be investor interested in resurrecting Eurocypria thinks that it will be a success , then they are in cloud-cuckoo land if they think it will succeed without wholesale changes to costs / salaries /attitudes / unions and , of course , being allowed to operate to their strengths by the Cypriot government for a change .
Hopefully , the gov is weary of all the shenanigans and bottomless pit for the taxpayers money , and allow wholesale commercial changes .
Otherwise , just thowing good money after bad ?

I completely agree. With the likes of EZY and RYR now using LCA and PFO competition is feirce. Who wants to sit on a clapped out 'bus with poor cabin service stinking of cigarette smoke when you can pay half price and fly on a loco on new equipment?

The government need to look at giving the unions much less control, the CTO need to promote the island and keep tourists happy (and curtail the escalating costs/ outright rip off's tourists endure) but above all staff need to be flexible and courteous. Hermes airports could also play a part and negotiate lower departure fees and eradicate the absurd airport development fee...

All in all a ground up restructure is needed. Maybe its too late?

An investor(s) resurrecting Eurocypria, would make sure that government would stay as far away as possible, so that the new company would be allowed freely to work, and fly anywhere it wants. In such a way CY would have its problems increased, and possibly lay off pilots instead of hiring..

Anyone going to Nicosia on the 28th?

So I take it from this, that they finally got their act together and sorted out some assessment days?

Indeed, just the one though

About time!!! Good Luck!!!

SW1


did u get a call from cy airways? are they begining recruitment? and if yes when did they call you?

Also what will the first day be about?

Yes I did Costas, on Friday- How about you? The first stage involves a series of aptitude tests like numerical reasoning and the likes.

didn't get a call yet. maybe tomorow

Has anybody else been invited?

Yes, I have

Just got the invitation.

How are you preparing for your exam SW1 and gr-pilot? Are you using any books etc?