China Southern wants You!!

[MDPilot]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.



China Southern Airlines Announced New Pilot Training Program
Friday June 1, 9:00 am ET
GUANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

China Southern Airlines, (NYSE:ZNH - News; HKSE:1055)(SHA:600029) - www.cs-air.com/en - with the largest and most technically advanced aircraft fleet in The People's Republic of China announced that it will be the first mainland airline to recruit 100 pilots who are willing to pay for their own flight training.


Chinese airlines normally cover all the costs of pilot training but China Southern is aiming to train more pilots at their own expense to meet the crying demand, according to Yu Renlu with Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

The civil aviation sector is expected to have a shortfall in demand of almost 10,000 pilots by 2010, said Mr. Yu.

More than 90 percent of China's pilots are trained by the Sichuan-based Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC) under the supervision of the CAAC, which recruits up to 1,000 pilots a year.

Pilot trainees have to study and train in the CAFUC for four years before they graduate with a license and a bachelor's degree.

Airlines spend almost a million yuan ($130,000 USD) to train each pilot,
said Wang Renjie, of China Southern.

Chinese pilots trained in this way are usually obligated to serve long-term contracts with the same airline.

Mr. Yu said the country would urge the CAFUC to produce more pilots but at the same time seek alternative training scenarios in order to provide more pilots to meet the market demand.

The 100 pilot trainees under the China Southern program would study at the CAFUC for two years, including 18 months of flight training to get a license, except for those who failed the examinations.

Men aged 20 to 27 with at least a high-school diploma could sign up at the website of China Southern for enrollment by the end of June, said Mr. Si Xianmin, President of China Southern.

They are expected to pay about 652,000 yuan (84,675.3 U.S. dollars) each for the training and are allowed to work for other airlines when they fulfill the required service for China Southern Airlines.

Trainees could get bank loans to cover expenses with China Southern Airlines acting as the warrantor, and they would be expected to repay the loans from their salaries within 10 years.

China's pilots can expect to earn around 2.9 million yuan ($376,000 US) over 10 years and the bank loans along with the interest would be about 900,000 yuan.

[Doug Taylor]

$376K over 10 years is $37G's a year... but then you've got to to spend $85K to train yourself?

Man, such a deal, where do I sign up?

[Ramsey]

I almost thought this was PFT, but this is not different than what goes on everywhere else. They pay for their training and get a PAYING job when they graduate. The loan comes from the airline and they pay the airline back - LH does the same in Germany.

[Fly4Pay]

China SOUTHERN? Do you get a pickup truck when you finish training?

[moxiepilot]

cry

[mrivc211]

Them: towa aaahhh- china sathan 47 heaveeeee I EWLL SSS TWO FOOO WRIIIGHT!

US: Are you serious?

LOL. Not making fun other them, I just can't understand them very well. Dudes are flyin A340-600's around as well.

[mpenguin1]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

$376K over 10 years is $37G's a year... but then you've got to to spend $85K to train yourself?

Man, such a deal, where do I sign up?

Things are different outside of the US, many countries do not have the aviation infrastructure that we have here.

Before you get the commerical aviation level, pilots put in there in time & money, taking basic flight classes, building their time, with cessnas, props, pipercubs, crop dusters, working on your instructor, multi time, etc.

All of this cost you money, in China you do not have that chance, so, normally, the airlines provide the training all the way from Basic flight 101 to the 747.

Pilots here paid for their training at one time or another, just maybe you didn't write that check all at once....

[DE727UPS]

"Dudes are flyin A340-600's around as well."

I'm sure that's what the Chinese say about me when I can't understand them too well in PVG or TPE. "Dudes are flyin around in a brown 767"

[BobDDuck]

Except somewhere at some time somebody decided that the official language of aviation was English, not Chinese.

[Ramsey]

Try telling French controllers that!