{"id":1039,"date":"2009-10-02T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T08:32:00","slug":"emirates-and-etihad-airways-start-hiring-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/10\/emirates-and-etihad-airways-start-hiring-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Emirates and Etihad Airways start hiring again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >T<\/span>wo UAE carriers &#8211; EmiratesEmirates and Etihad AirwaysEtihad AirwaysLoading&#8230; &#8211; have started their recruitment drives again after a period of consolidation and a hiring freeze, owing to the global economic slowdown, according to a report by Flight International, an aviation magazine.<br \/>Both the carriers had frozen headcounts in order to control costs in the wake of significant declines in yield brought in by the downturn.     <br \/>&#8216; President Tim Clark was quoted by Flight International as saying that the &#8220;economic meltdown&#8221; has resulted in &#8220;possibly a three- to five-year paradigm shift in the way yields have dropped&#8221;.<br \/>The carrier, which employs 27,000 people (including divisions that support other parts of the group), ceased recruiting in February\/March this year. Flight International quoted Clark as saying says that with &#8220;growth, in terms of aircraft induction, continuing apace the lines crossed in September and we&#8217;re recruiting 494 cabin crew between now and February&#8221;.<br \/>He added that flightcrew hiring has also restarted.<br \/>Etihad&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer James Hogan on the other hand, said: &#8220;The challenge all year has been yield. We&#8217;re seeing yields in some sectors pushed down to 2006-7 levels.&#8221; He was quoted as saying this in a report. Etihad, meanwhile, is adding 11 single- and twin-aisle aircraft during the 2009 calendar year, but then enters a period of consolidation with only four additions in 2010 and four in 2011, as per the report, with deliveries beginning in 2012 of the 100 aircraft ordered at last year&#8217;s Farnborough air show.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">01\/10\/09  Shweta Jaina Emirates Business 24-7\/Zawya<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two UAE carriers &#8211; EmiratesEmirates and Etihad AirwaysEtihad AirwaysLoading&#8230; &#8211; have started their recruitment drives again after a period of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}