The latest report of the pilot

2065 438+02- 10, China Eastern Airlines began to recruit foreign pilots and screened them among many foreign pilots with flight qualifications. It took more than three months of investigation and preliminary preparation. At the end of February 20 13, foreign pilots were officially contacted. After a very strict written test, interview, data review and flight simulator examination, eight foreign captains were identified as recruitment candidates.

Although the license is complete, the foreign captain still starts from scratch. Chris is the captain of the original airline. After joining China Eastern Airlines, he followed the flight in Beijing, Pudong and Hongqiao, recording and studying all the time, just like a "trainee pilot". A month later, he turned into a captain.

A related person from China Eastern Airlines Wuhan Company said that foreign pilots mainly fly to international routes such as Wuhan-San Francisco, as well as commercial routes such as Beijing and Shanghai. Their salaries are kept secret for the time being, and some are settled in US dollars. The company assists in arranging housing and other living security.

In 2002, the first batch of foreign pilots came to work in China. In the past 1 1 year, there were more than 1000 "foreign captains" flying in CAAC.

According to senior pilots of Wuhan Airlines, it is more cost-effective to recruit foreign pilots than to recruit China pilots, because foreign pilots sign short-term contracts with airlines for three to five years, and some of them don't have to pay "transfer fees". However, the pilot training of domestic airlines adopts the' life-on-order system', in which a contract is signed with the company first and then the training is funded by the company. Once pilots change jobs, airlines will pay millions of dollars in transfer fees, which will often lead to some legal disputes.