flydog
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Its true about Singapore and many other European and Asian airlines. A lot of the carriers have cadet programs where they basically take people from zero or low time, train them and put them on the line flying the heavy iron.
British Airways has the same type of programs as does Lufthansa. My FO was called for interviews at Alitalia and British Airways when he had less than 1000 hrs.
The mind set in Europe is different. They are very selective about who they hire and dont care about total time. The theory is that it is better to train someone from scratch to your standards than to hire someone with 10,000 hrs of ingrained bad habits.
If you can learn a foreign language and spend about 12k and a year abroad on your JAA licenses you may find it easier to get on with a foreign carrier.
The pay scale at some of these carriers especially the government owned union carriers is also outstanding and in some cases better than the US with MD-80 Captains making over $200,000 USD and MD-11 Captains over $400,000
www.pprune.com has info about the selection process at some of these airlines
Its true about Singapore and many other European and Asian airlines. A lot of the carriers have cadet programs where they basically take people from zero or low time, train them and put them on the line flying the heavy iron.
British Airways has the same type of programs as does Lufthansa. My FO was called for interviews at Alitalia and British Airways when he had less than 1000 hrs.
The mind set in Europe is different. They are very selective about who they hire and dont care about total time. The theory is that it is better to train someone from scratch to your standards than to hire someone with 10,000 hrs of ingrained bad habits.
If you can learn a foreign language and spend about 12k and a year abroad on your JAA licenses you may find it easier to get on with a foreign carrier.
The pay scale at some of these carriers especially the government owned union carriers is also outstanding and in some cases better than the US with MD-80 Captains making over $200,000 USD and MD-11 Captains over $400,000
www.pprune.com has info about the selection process at some of these airlines