All Nippon Airways

[Dumb Pilot]

ANA just announced that they will reorganize their company structure and merge several of their subsidiaries, both Air Japan (AJX) and ANA & JP Express (AJV) will merge by next year and we will do a combination of both passenger and cargo flights at Air Japan, this is the way it was at the beginning before they split the cargo division. Hiring will continue for the foreseeable future since they are preparing for the additional slots that will become available with the opening of the new runway at Haneda and the extension of the "B" runway at Narita.

I guess I'm going to have to learn how to use the oven on the freighters

 

[djensen78]

I see you get 10-11 days off in a row, what are the work blocks like time wise?

 

[Dumb Pilot]

I see you get 10-11 days off in a row, what are the work blocks like time wise?

I'm doing 18 to 19 day rosters since I'm using two vacation days/ month and we are getting around six trips/ roster and the average is 50 hours flight time, 4 or 5 stand by days in every roster. They will use you one of those standby days every other month but most of the time you will be in Narita. There might be better utilization with the reintegration of the companies, who knows?

 

[Regional4life]

Are the FO's on contract being awarded upgrade during their initial contracts?

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Right now there is an active upgrade program at around the 4 year mark, if the merger of AJV and AJX will have an affect on that at this time we simply don't know

 

[Varig]

Any ideas of what might happen when the 767s get replaced? In other words will this job still be available 5, 10 years down the road?

VF

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Any ideas of what might happen when the 767s get replaced? In other words will this job still be available 5, 10 years down the road?

VF

The 76's will be in operation at ANA for a while still, it is the largest fleet in the company and it has proven a reliable and profitable platform for their operations. They just ordered six more new 763's from Boeing along with some more 777's and of course their order on the 787's.

Now having said that, the very nature of contract work has a termination date attached to it and it has nothing to do with one type of aircraft, it has to do with the demand for pilots created by growth, attrition due to retirement, the low Japanese nationals recruitment numbers and the length of time that it takes to get a new pilot on the line (it is 4 years to graduate from the ANA academy) If the demand is still there after the 767's are gone they will stick us on another airframe, if the demand subsides we are gone independently of the 76's being in operation or not.

It is expected that they will have the need for foreign pilots for at least another 10 years, beyond that? no one knows, but I expect that 76's to be around longer than that.

 

[Varig]

Thanks dumb pilot. I hope it stays that way for a long time. I'd hate to see the ANA crew end up like JALways and this job is looking very attractive to me. I hope to be there in the near future.