Bexair has many issues. Bexair has rules under the Bahrain CAA ANTP manual, its own ops manual, ie: duty time limits, etc. but ignores all of them. The head of the CAA looks the other way, so it appears someone may be contributing to his retirement account.
Bexair's CL604 has a record for the fewest maintenance writeups in the Bombardier Challenger fleet. If one looks in Bexair's flight time writeup sheets one will hardly ever find a writeup.
Bexair will fly their aircraft in an unworthy condition, which is why they never write anything up. With no writeups it is always airworthy as far as the MEL is concerned.
Bexair never does weight and balance computations.
Bexair has either current charts, out of date charts, no charts, and does not have a record in any of their aircraft to see what is or is not. CL604, Citation bravo, 560XL.
Bexair's dispatchters are not qualified dispatchers.
Bexair is top heavy in help and management, their overhead is tremendous, and dominated by Indian and Pakistani managers.
these people are of a different culture than westerners, and one learns rather quickly to not ask, just do. Anyone not raised in the UK, Canada, or the US learns very quickly the march is to a different tune.
Bexair pilots are the last to know. A flight attendent will know a schedule before the pilot.
A pilot at Bexair is a camel driver with no respect. Top management will tell a camel driver how important such and such a pax is, but never tell a pilot he is doing a good job.
Pilots do not have saudi visas. Evertime one goes to saudi, like 8 times a week as the 604 is based in jeddah. it will take anywhere from 20 minutes to 1 hour to get a visa. This cuts in to the crews rest time. typically one departs for the airport 2 and one half hours before departure, however ones duty time starts one hour before departure. it should be noted the extra time here is not in favor of the crew. 30 minutes after shutdown is end of duty, however one is lucky to leave one hour after shutdown.
Some of the senior Bexair pilots are cowboys. They never say no. If one is a cowboy pilot, does not care about any rules, then Bexair is the place to go.
Bexair's marketing department calls all the shots. They make the deals. the more deals marketing makes, the more commision they make, and the more the pilots fly.
Bexair is always short on pilots. Pilots either quit when they learn there are no rules, or Bexair fires people who bring up the rules. Bexair will pay a contract pilot 17,000 dollars etc. for a one month gig, while their own pilots get what is indicated below.
Bexair pilots receive 6,000 per month for 2 months, then 6,000 for one's month off. they also pay 72.00 per day perdium during the 2 months. In Bexair's rulebook, one is on call everyday for 60 days, which is in direct conflict of their own ops manual and also the Bahrain CAA manual.
Bexair's most senior advisor to the owner, a retired gentleman of pakistani descent at 78, quit 2 weeks ago as he got fed up with Bexair's complete disregard to play by bthe rules.
I survived at Bexair for 42 days in their 604, and walked away out of their lack of standards.
Once again if one is a cowboy and likes flying, jump aboard, and you professional pilots stsy away.
While this appears negative in content, it is accurate.
