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05.Mar.2008 : HR Briefing Today was the Briefing with HR. It took place at the new EGHQ building. First a checklist session with Alavia and then an interview with Helena. I must say that having struggled with the decision and discussed it to endless lengths with Meg and some close friends, it’s annoying to go [...]
03.Mar.2008 : The Memo : Resigning from an Airlines is all about the paperwork – but surprisingly the first of it doesn’t come to you.
26.Feb.2008 : Resignation While there’s so much that goes before an act like this, the beginning of this blog will be the resignation. I sent the resignation e-mail to Patricia on the 26th of Feb, 2008. I have had quite a bit to do with Patricia Pargiter (Fleet Manager Boeing) over the years since her [...]
During those 12 years I flew the Airbus 310-300, Airbus 300-600R and Boeing 777 200/300/300ER. I was an FO, a Captain and Training Captain. I worked in management as a technical pilot, and worked on (and for a short time ran) a IT project for a Training Management System/Learning Management System/Content Management System development. I [...]
Reuters recently reported the arrest of two Emirates Cabin Crew in Dubai for the exchange of illicit text messages. There’s more depth to this story, as it comes on the back of divorce proceedings (a year earlier) and insinuations that the two texters had been in a relationship while the junior cabin crew member was [...]
As a pilot who spent the most significant portion his career in Emirates, I still tend to keep my ear to the ground as to what’s happening in the Sandpit. While rumors abound and scuttlebutt is ever present, I’m hearing from a couple of sources both inside and outside Ek of developments in the pilot recruitment market. – [...]
