Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:Kikapu wrote:As long as Turkish Airlines pay their pilots in Euros or Dollars, you can separate politics from career and fly for them, assuming you want to live in Turkey or in Cyprus. Greece may be a good option for you if you did work for Turkish Airlines. I was watching an interview with the CEO from United last week. I was very impressed by him.
They are paying in USD. 27K per month for Captains and 17K for FOs.
This from some ex Olympic guys I know extremely well. Some Greeks are in senior roles too, as in Check and Training. There is literally over 100 Greek Pilots there now.
They are gabbing whoever they can get as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple of Cypriots working with them as well (ex Cyprus Airways)
Emirates have just parked 50 long haul B777, A350 and A380 on the fence because they can't crew their aircraft anymore.
Erdogan wants Turkish Lira to be used for everything instead of foreign currency in Turkey, so perhaps soon Turkish airlines may pay their pilots with the TL, which as you know has been devalued by 70% over the last 12 months and likely to get worse in the future since the TL has always lost value since it‘s inception, whether as the old TL or the new TL.
What's happening now is that there is a chronic shortage which has resulted from pilots dropping out of the system because of deteriorating pay and conditions.
Once you're out, it's hard to get back current again.
Also, the economic upturn in America, Asia, China etc has resulted in record orders for Boeing and Airbus. As a result, industry can't train enough people in time and aircraft are getting moth balled and parked up.
And parked up planes, cost big money and are a huge liability when they are not flying and earning for the operator.
A lot of airline execs are really worried and now pay and conditions are going the other way and its a pilot's market again.
