If a pilot is looking for a job and goes online to check the vacancies, it comes as no surprise that broker agencies dominate the job market. In the past decade brokers – in all shapes and sizes – have filled a void created by airlines who were not able or willing to offer permanent or stable jobs.
Instead, brokers started offering screening and recruitment, training programmes, Pay-to-Fly schemes and in some cases – actual job opportunities. But the rise of temporary work agencies has led to a fall in job quality and employee satisfaction. Until now, this was a sentiment shared by crew and only visible to industry insiders. Now, it is out in the open and confirmed by a recent EU Commission report on aircrew employment in Europe: if there is one common denominator in many of today’s employment and social abuses, it is temporary agencies, brokers & other intermediaries.
