Time to Recruit!
The summer season is coming to an end, the airlines are seeing how much profit or losses they made and they will be planning for the next summer season soon. The airline hiring cycle will soon start to ramp up as the accountants will tell flight operation departments how many aircraft they need to crew and what routes they will fly next year.
Many operators have a target of being fully crewed by May and allow about 2 months for training and familiarisation so, the new hires will need to be turning up to their new employers in March. It appears that the standard notice period within the aviation industry is 3 months so people who have been hired need to resign from their current employers around the new year. This leaves from now until the end of December to advertise, interview and check new crew members looking to move. This is why the autumn is the hiring season and many HR managers will start to earn their pay!
Over the last few weeks, we have seen a little less activity from employers right up until now. Over the last 24 hours I have been dealing with a couple of employers who are looking for good people to crew their aircraft. As soon as we get the necessary details the job will appear on the website and we will spread the work via our growing social networks.
The employment new is looking positive in the USA as the last of the furloughed pilots from Continental Airlines are recalled and the financial health of the major players seems to improve. The situation is still pretty fragile and any small upset could send the pack of cards tumbling. Fractional operator Netjets has posted a profit of over $114 million for the first six months of 2010 and is investing in wireless internet technology for it's aircraft in the USA. The factional market in Europe is still finely balanced but it appears that Netjets Europe will post a modest profit this year.
General Aviation in Europe is going through a process of analysing the summer figures as the insanely busy summer season comes to an end. There is still excess capacity and the profit margins are so very tight I am amazed that some companies can still survive. The light jet market appears to be the most vulnerable at the moment and the large jet market is relatively stable with Gulfstream reporting that their order book is still full.
Flight Crew Finder will continue to network on your behalf and list the jobs that you just cant find elsewhere. We are committed to help people find flying employment in todays tough market and we are always interested in you comments. Please feel free to use the forum to discuss the issues of the day and you may well get some good words of advice form the many people who trawl the site.
