How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
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Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#2Great read! I'm a bit surprised the author (and others?) didn't get a bro-level warning from others who'd done this. Oops; hindsight is 50/50. I suppose this post is just that, and I bet no one else will walk into this with expectations otherwise! Granted, rapidly-changing field with the war...
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#3> Like many airlines, Yemenia use one of the major rostering apps, and rosters release 15 days before the end of the month. Even despite the rocket attacks, car bombs, mortars, and intermittent electricity and wifi, they do still manage to get the roster out on time, which is more than I can say for the few European carriers I worked for.
Outstanding.
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#4Great read! I'm a bit surprised the author (and others?) didn't get a bro-level warning from others who'd done this. Oops; hindsight is 50/50. I suppose this post is just that, and I bet no one else will walk into this with expectations otherwise! Granted, rapidly-changing field with the war...
I wonder if it's such an obviously bad idea, that nobody felt like they had to issue such a warning.
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#5The OP of that thread later went on to do a contract with Kam Air of Afghanistan, which is another good read: https://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment/662364-kam-air-expat...
A highlight:
> YA-KME for example, has a strange little thing where you’ll get an ECAM Red ENG 3 FIRE after you detent into CLB. For f*ck sake, don’t discharge the bottles, there’s no fire. It’ll shut up after 3 or 4 seconds. Again, reason unknown, everybody just kind of lives with it’s quirks now. KME is commonly referred too as “Kill Me”, as this is the aircraft with the most random issues. Brake temps breaking the charts when you start up from cold and dark in DXB for example. You’ll get used to them, and you’ll get used to which ones are “KME Normal” and KME actually trying to kill you.
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#6Its interesting.
I live in "kashmir", India side and the place is on a similar no-go by both UK and US governments travel advisory.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Us has a level 4 do not travel.
The point is, we are around 10 million souls living in this place and we call it home. It may not be for Americans and British but its our home.
Reading this article, im sure travellers here last month could give similar "harrowing" accounts of escaping from the valley and the stuff they did.
Yeah, terrorism tourism is real and its "extremely cheap" compared to last month. More safer I would assume but yeah.
The air fare has dropped to like 30%, hotels are empty so they will offer you sweet deals.
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#7Great read! I'm a bit surprised the author (and others?) didn't get a bro-level warning from others who'd done this. Oops; hindsight is 50/50. I suppose this post is just that, and I bet no one else will walk into this with expectations otherwise! Granted, rapidly-changing field with the war...
I've worked with a bunch of ex-Yemini (who left around 1949 and 1950) and not once have I heard one say he was homesick for _anything_
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#8Its interesting. I live in "kashmir", India side and the place is on a similar no-go by both UK and US governments travel advisory. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/... Us has a level 4 do not travel. The point is, we are around 10 million souls living in this place and we call it home. It may not be for Americans and British but its our home.…
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Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#9I'd read a whole book of stories like this, great writing.
Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived
#10The OP of that thread later went on to do a contract with Kam Air of Afghanistan, which is another good read: https://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment/662364-kam-air-expat... A highlight: > YA-KME for example, has a strange little thing where you’ll get an ECAM Red ENG 3 FIRE after you detent into CLB. For f*ck sake, don’t discharge the bottles, there’s no fire. It’ll shut up after 3 or 4 seconds. Again, reason unknow…
I'm sure the usual suspects are pounding away at their keyboards with condemnation but after reading that but I think that's a pretty gloving review, all things considered.