BeechBoy
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How's this for a horror story, folks. I was furloughed from Spirit Airlines at the end of July. Not wanting to rely on them calling me back I immediately started looking for other employment. As luck would have it National Air Service (NAS) Airlines in Saudi was looking for A320 pilots. This job was offered through Flightcrew Solutions.
I applied for the job and on September 11 I was informed by Flightcrew Solutions that NAS had offered me a job with an Oct 19 class date. By the end of September I was getting kind of curious why nobody from NAS or Flightcrew solutions was contacting me about travel arrangements, visas, etc. I sent innumerable e-mails to Flightcrew Solutions with no response. I finally discovered that if you want to communicate with them you have to call their office in the UK (well, at least they answer their phones). I expressed my concern and they told me that NAS was having difficulties getting visas and things were running about 10 days behind. A week or so later I called again for an update (they still couldn't be bothered to respond to a simple e-mail). Once again I'm told that everything is A-OK and things just move a little slower in the Arab world. A week later (on the advice of a friend) I contacted a different person at Flightcrew Solutions for an update. I got an e-mail from them two days later informing me that NAS said I didn't meet their minimums! (Their mins are 3,000 TT + 500 hours in jets; I have 3,012 TT and almost 1,000 in jets ).
So there I was, just sitting on my butt for 7 weeks thinking I had a job. I have no idea when NAS decided that 3,012 was less than 3,000 and stopped processing my application but apparently they didn't think it was important enough to tell me. The clowns at Flightcrew Solutions obviously didn't do any serious checking into the situation despite my repeated e-mails to them. ("Just tell him everything's OK so I can get back to my Guiness!).
As soon as I learned about my supposed lack of qualifications I tried to contact NAS directly to work things out (I had two contacts in their HR department). I e-mailed them, sent them copies of my application and pointed out to them that I did, in fact, meet the minimums listed on their website. Do you think they had the courtesy to reply and let me know what was going on? Of course not.
It amazes me that airlines all over the world treat pilots like such crap and then scratch their head and wonder why pilots distrust management.
I applied for the job and on September 11 I was informed by Flightcrew Solutions that NAS had offered me a job with an Oct 19 class date. By the end of September I was getting kind of curious why nobody from NAS or Flightcrew solutions was contacting me about travel arrangements, visas, etc. I sent innumerable e-mails to Flightcrew Solutions with no response. I finally discovered that if you want to communicate with them you have to call their office in the UK (well, at least they answer their phones). I expressed my concern and they told me that NAS was having difficulties getting visas and things were running about 10 days behind. A week or so later I called again for an update (they still couldn't be bothered to respond to a simple e-mail). Once again I'm told that everything is A-OK and things just move a little slower in the Arab world. A week later (on the advice of a friend) I contacted a different person at Flightcrew Solutions for an update. I got an e-mail from them two days later informing me that NAS said I didn't meet their minimums! (Their mins are 3,000 TT + 500 hours in jets; I have 3,012 TT and almost 1,000 in jets ).
So there I was, just sitting on my butt for 7 weeks thinking I had a job. I have no idea when NAS decided that 3,012 was less than 3,000 and stopped processing my application but apparently they didn't think it was important enough to tell me. The clowns at Flightcrew Solutions obviously didn't do any serious checking into the situation despite my repeated e-mails to them. ("Just tell him everything's OK so I can get back to my Guiness!).
As soon as I learned about my supposed lack of qualifications I tried to contact NAS directly to work things out (I had two contacts in their HR department). I e-mailed them, sent them copies of my application and pointed out to them that I did, in fact, meet the minimums listed on their website. Do you think they had the courtesy to reply and let me know what was going on? Of course not.
It amazes me that airlines all over the world treat pilots like such crap and then scratch their head and wonder why pilots distrust management.