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Hello! Heard from a RELIABLE SOURCE, next year MAS is going to fire 60 of its pilots due to disciplinary issues(mostly) and most likely will open Direct Entry intake to cover it up.

they already did to 18 FOs before due to disciplinary issues. if m not mistaken.

so it is really possible then...Well, 18 go out, another 1000 guys coming for the slots... XD

not thousands...they will pick the best and further more th've lots of cadets waiting for their line training and 5 more batches that are still in FA..so about 150 cadet total in process including 80 whom are still in FA and as i heard another batch will be heading into an FA soon.So make it 6 batches of cadets..but it's for sure they will advertise for DIRECT INTAKE NEXT YEAR..

lets just hope for d best i guess.

MAS should have done this long time ago ........ majority are good but getting rid of a few bad apples, including managers & staff in various depts are much better, especially HR & Revenue dept ......


The Unlearned

It is NOT normal for MAS to terminate the services of these people, just like the 'gomen' lah.
Over the years, these 'bad apples' grew in numbers and best part(worst part actually) they're in the management! Those who can't stand left and the ones that left are mostly the good ones..

captainlordz wrote:Hello! Heard from a RELIABLE SOURCE, next year MAS is going to fire 60 of its pilots due to disciplinary issues(mostly) and most likely will open Direct Entry intake to cover it up.

To cover up the loss, the company require qualified pilots who are ready to do the job the very next day. So the direct intake you probably heard of is for rated pilots, not freshies. 150 cadets in the system, with the current rate of production into being an operation pilot, it will take at least 2yrs for this 150 to be fully online.

skyshadow wrote:not thousands...they will pick the best and further more th've lots of cadets waiting for their line training and 5 more batches that are still in FA..so about 150 cadet total in process including 80 whom are still in FA and as i heard another batch will be heading into an FA soon.So make it 6 batches of cadets..but it's for sure they will advertise for DIRECT INTAKE NEXT YEAR..

Wow...a good piece of news! At least the cadets waiting for their line training
can move up .....
I wonder why MAS holding back so many cadets on the waiting line...
And yet there are cadets to be graduated ....
And yet they need direct intake as mentioned while they have 150+80=230 cadets
in the waiting line??

Clement wrote:Wow...a good piece of news! At least the cadets waiting for their line training
can move up .....
I wonder why MAS holding back so many cadets on the waiting line...
And yet there are cadets to be graduated ....
And yet they need direct intake as mentioned while they have 150+80=230 cadets
in the waiting line??

There is a limit on the number of cadets you can train at a time, slots like ground school, simulator, endorsement, line training and stuff are just the few consideration. All these problems were caused back in 2005-6 when flying schools delayed graduating cadets on time, whats going on right now are all the snowball effect of what happened years before. Its not the company that is holding back cadets on the waiting line.

MAS have always been taking in direct entry cadets in a small number for a very long time. I don't see them going on a large scale recruitment of direct entry freshies, probably 1-2 cadets to join every MAS batch out of flying school during the conversion programme.