Japan's Oriental Air Bridge Preparing To Receive New Aircraft
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- 18 May 2022
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Japanese regional carrier Oriental Air Bridge, which plans to replace its older aircraft with ATR 42-600s, is advertising for personnel.
Oriental Air Bridge in the span of a month has advertised for two general staff, an unspecified number of co-pilots and an unspecified number of maintenance management personnel.
The maintenance management staff as well as the general staff – for the sales office department and the operation management department – will be based in Nagasaki, it says. The airline is headquartered in this southern Japanese city.
The hiring notice says the co-pilots are for De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Dash 8-400s and ATR 42-600s that the carrier plans to have based at Fukuoka or Nagasaki airports, starting in this year’s third quarter.
The airline is hiring because “we are building a stronger internal structure for the company” in preparation for delivery of the ATR 42-600s, a spokesperson for Oriental Air Bridge says in an emailed response to a query from Smart Aviation Asia Pacific. He says they are looking for Japanese pilots who already have a Japan Civil Aviation Bureau license for the De Havilland of Canada Dash 8-400 and ATR 42, he adds.
Smart Aviation Asia Pacific has previously reported that Oriental Air Bridge will be leasing two ATR 42-600 aircraft to replace its three aging De Havilland of Canada Dash 8-200 aircraft for its routes to remote islands.
In a press release last year, Oriental Air Bridge said it will receive the first of two ATR 42-600s by 30 March 2023 in time to start regular service by the end of 2023 and that it aims to have two ATR 42-600 in operation from 2025. Read More...
