Airlines in Asia

[professor]

Airlines in Asia Hiring?

Who in Asia hires American pilots? I know they are very slow right now, just looking for information or experiences. If needed, how do you get an International ATP ( I think this it what it called).
Thanks for the posts,
Prof.

 

[typhoonpilot]

Hi Professor:

This subject has been talked about before in other threads. Do a search for Asia in the majors category or Flying Overseas in the general forum. Those are two of the better threads with good information to answer your question.

Typhoonpilot

 

[jtf]

China Airlines and Singapore Airlines both have hiring info in their main websites. There are definitely others, but most don't have the info right on their site. There have been many other posts on the subject so searching this site should turn up a lot more good info. Many of the Asian airlines only hire foreign captains and those captains are usually required to have lots of international PIC experience in the aircraft the airlines hiring fly- usually the great big stuff. Some will hire captains from other large aircraft and retrain them, but then also pay them less to start. Good luck. It is something I have spent a lot of time looking into and would like to do also, but I am not close to the experience requirements.

 

[blade230]

Both China Airlines and Singapore Airlines have frozen pilot recruitment. The websites are outdated. China Airlines has begun asking for voluntary LOA's, and Singapore Airlines is being pressured by its union to lay off all pilots on expatriate contracts based outside of Singapore.

For Cathay,

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- A Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. plane
heading for Tokyo made an emergency landing in Hong Kong after
smoke detectors in the cabin were activated 10 minutes into the
flight.
The Airbus SAS A340-300, which was carrying 47 passengers
and 12 crew, returned to the city's Chek Lap Kok airport at
5:30 p.m., 17 minutes after takeoff when a smoke detector lit up
in the cabin crew's rest area, said airline spokeswoman Rosita Ng.
``For the sake of safety, the pilot returned to the
airport,'' Ng said.
No smoke was detected and nobody on board flight CX508 was
injured during the incident, Ng said.
The city's Civil Aviation Department is investigating the
incident, said Tam Siu-man, a spokesman for the Hong Kong Airport
Authority.


Notice the passeger load.

 

[T-Gates]

47 pax on a A340-300............I don't think there will be any hiring any time soon.

--03M