You will certainly be competitive for any airline job in Canada after returning. The issue is you're competing for an entry level airline job at the bottom of the seniority list, same as any other pilot still in Canada. In North America seniority rules, not experience once you meet the minimum entry level standards.Flyboycanada80 wrote:Other than taking a pay cut etc. how hard is it to come back and find a job. Do employers value the experience?
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Some personal perspective:-tbaylx wrote:You will certainly be competitive for any airline job in Canada after returning. The issue is you're competing for an entry level airline job at the bottom of the seniority list, same as any other pilot still in Canada. In North America seniority rules, not experience once you meet the minimum entry level standards.Flyboycanada80 wrote:Other than taking a pay cut etc. how hard is it to come back and find a job. Do employers value the experience?
After I got Command on the 737 going back to Canada became less and less of an option. It made no sense from either a career or financial viewpoint. Difference in salary was over 50%.
I didn't want to go back to being First Officer - in the past I've resigned from a good job because that's what was going to happen.
Once I started flying wide-bodied aircraft all over the World the financial and career costs of going back to Canada became even greater.
I live in a country where I am not a citizen. I own a house there and I've made it my home. It works for me.
My company sends me a ticket to wherever they need me to go on day one of my roster and sends me home on the last day of my roster. Works for me as well.
I appreciate we all have different needs and goals - but if you do decide to become Expat you will be facing this issue at some point.
Within the group of Expats I know/worked with (all nationalities) the only ones who went back to their home countries were the ones who retired.
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Do you work at SriLankan airways?
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Not anymore. I work for this company:upintheair_ wrote:Do you work at SriLankan airways?
http://www.hifly.aero/en/
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Eric, HiFly seems like an interesting company, and I hear it is much better than the competing EuroAtlantic Airways. I'm guessing it is only an option for those with an EASA licence and European citizenship?Eric Janson wrote:Not anymore. I work for this company:upintheair_ wrote:Do you work at SriLankan airways?
http://www.hifly.aero/en/
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Lisbon is a great city to be based in. I love Portugal, like Spain without the attitude!
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